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Memories: My Life As an International Leader in Health, Suffrage, and Peace
Memories My Life As an International Leader in Health Suffrage and Peace Author:Aletta Jacobs, Harriet Feinberg, Harriet Pass Freidenreich MEMORIES introduces American readers to a key Dutch feminist and progressive activist. Jacobs was the first Dutch woman to earn a medical degree. She pioneered health care reforms for prostitutes and saleswomen and access to birth control. A leader in the international womens suffrage and peace movements, she joined Carrie Chapman Catt on ... more »a year-long round-the-world lecture and sightseeing tour. In MEMORIES, Jacobs recounts her remarkable experiences in a voice that is often witty, sometimes angry, and always indomitable. Memories brings to life a time of enormous changes for women and one of the women who helped make these changes happen.« less