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- Paperback Edition
- ISBN: 978-1-55861-138-2
- Page Count: 272
- Categories: Feminist Theory, History, Memoir/Biography, Nonfiction
Memories
Translated by Annie Wright. Afterword by Harriet Freidenreich & Harriet Feinberg.
The first Dutch woman to earn a medical degree, Aletta H. Jacobs pioneered health care reforms and access to birth control for prostitutes and saleswomen. A leader in the international women's suffrage and peace movements, she joined Carrie Chapman Catt on a year-long round-the-world lecture tour. Jacobs recounts her remarkable experiences in a voice that is often witty, sometimes angry, and always indomitable.
"Finally, Aletta Jacobs's memoir of her pioneering life is available to English readers! For those of us who struggle to connect the continuum of personal freedom, the right to control our own bodies, social justice and international peace, the campaigns of this energetic and extraordinary European foremother, active over a century ago, are required reading."
NEA Grant will help fund the digitization of 15 Feminist Press classics, and the publication of three extraordinary literary works: Savage Coast by Muriel Rukeyser, Kissing the Sword: A Prison Memoir by Shahrnush Parsipur, and The Silent Woman by Monika Zgustova.
