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Book List:
Basic Quakerism
Corporate Discernment

Memories

Memories

Memories

My Life As An International Leader In Health, Suffrage, And Peace

BY ALETTA JACOBS

Brief Description:
A pioneering Dutch feminist, the first woman to gain a medical degree in Holland, she visited America and worked closely with Jane Addams and others. She was with Quakers in Berlin after WW1 helping start the relief efforts for the starving. An organizer of the 1915 Hague conference, world traveler under a concern for birth control and health reforms for prostitutes and the poorer women.

Feminist Press 1996 248 PP. Paper

$5.00 (in stock)

 

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