Aletta Jacobs, women’s rights campaigner, doctor, pacifist and medical pioneer.
After a long struggle and special dispensation from the Prime Minister, she became the first Dutch female doctor. Among other things, she fought for women’s right to vote, campaigned around health protection for prostitutes and shop girls and wrote the first Dutch book on female anatomy for non-doctors. She founded a clinic where she distributed contraception. One of the methods she recommended was the recently invented diaphragm, the Mensinga pessary.
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