Memories: My Life as an International Leader in Health, Suffrage, and Peace (Paperback)

Aletta Jacobs; Harriet Feinberg; Harriet Pass Friedenreich
Feminist Press
9781558611382
1-55861-138-X

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.

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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.