Jacqueline Manicom | |
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Born | 1935 Guadeloupe |
Died | 1976 |
Occupation(s) | Writer, midwife |
Jacqueline Manicom (1935 – 1976) was a Guadeloupean writer, professor, broadcaster, feminist, and midwife, author of the novels Mon examen de blanc (1972) and La graine : journal d'une sage-femme (1974).
Manicom was born in Guadeloupe, the eldest of twenty children born to parents of South Asian origin. [1] She trained as a midwife, and studied law and philosophy in Paris.
Manicom worked at a public hospital in Paris as a young woman. She also worked in radio and television, and taught philosophy courses. In the late 1960s she worked with Simone de Beauvoir on women's rights in France, was a founding member of Choisir la Cause des Femmes (CHOISIR), and especially focused her activism on the legalization of abortion. [2] She and her husband founded a family planning clinic in Guadeloupe. [3] [4]
Manicom wrote two autobiographical novels in French, [5] Mon examen de blanc (1972) [6] and La graine : journal d'une sage-femme (1974), [7] both stories of Caribbean immigrant women in medical settings, [8] both with themes of race, class, gender, and sexuality in the context of French colonialism and French Caribbean independence. [9] [10] [11] [12]
Manicom married philosophy professor Yves Letourneur. They had two children. She died in 1976, aged 41 years. [2] [4] [13]
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Jacqueline Manicom | |
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Born | 1935 Guadeloupe |
Died | 1976 |
Occupation(s) | Writer, midwife |
Jacqueline Manicom (1935 – 1976) was a Guadeloupean writer, professor, broadcaster, feminist, and midwife, author of the novels Mon examen de blanc (1972) and La graine : journal d'une sage-femme (1974).
Manicom was born in Guadeloupe, the eldest of twenty children born to parents of South Asian origin. [1] She trained as a midwife, and studied law and philosophy in Paris.
Manicom worked at a public hospital in Paris as a young woman. She also worked in radio and television, and taught philosophy courses. In the late 1960s she worked with Simone de Beauvoir on women's rights in France, was a founding member of Choisir la Cause des Femmes (CHOISIR), and especially focused her activism on the legalization of abortion. [2] She and her husband founded a family planning clinic in Guadeloupe. [3] [4]
Manicom wrote two autobiographical novels in French, [5] Mon examen de blanc (1972) [6] and La graine : journal d'une sage-femme (1974), [7] both stories of Caribbean immigrant women in medical settings, [8] both with themes of race, class, gender, and sexuality in the context of French colonialism and French Caribbean independence. [9] [10] [11] [12]
Manicom married philosophy professor Yves Letourneur. They had two children. She died in 1976, aged 41 years. [2] [4] [13]
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