Women's HERstory Month Day 28: Fighting for Life, the story of Dr. Sara Josephine Baker

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SARA JOSEPHINE BAKER: PHYSICIAN AND PUBLIC HEALTH WORKER, 1873-1945
by Marsha Lakes Matyas
The American Physiological Society

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She was fucking amazing. Omg. Omg. She was also queer, later in her life her partner was the novelist Ida Alexa Ross Wylie, after Dr. Baker retired the two of them moved to New Jersey with another woman, Louise Pearce.

Also.

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YES, KATE BEATON.

Ngl I totally was inspired to give her her own post cause of Kate XD I got her book for Christmas and everything!