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Jacqueline Manicom
A young woman with brown skin and coiffed hair, wearing a strand of shiny beads
Jacqueline Manicom in 1961
Born1935
Guadeloupe
Died1976
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).

Early life

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.

Career

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]

Personal life

Manicom married philosophy professor Yves Letourneur. They had two children. She died in 1976, aged 41 years. [2] [4] [13]

References

  1. ^ The new Oxford companion to literature in French. Peter France. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1995. ISBN  0-19-866125-8. OCLC  32305141.{{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: others ( link)
  2. ^ a b Zancarini-Fournel, Michelle; Kramer, Regan (2019). "Contraception and abortion in the French Antilles (Guadeloupe and Martinique, 1964-1975)". Clio. Women, Gender, History (50): 89–112. ISSN  2554-3822. JSTOR  27077496.
  3. ^ Zimra, Clarisse. “Society’s Mirror: A Sociological Study of Guadeloupe’s Jacqueline Manicom.” Présence Francophone 19 (1979): 143–156.
  4. ^ a b Springfield, Consuelo López (1997). Daughters of Caliban: Caribbean Women in the Twentieth Century. Indiana University Press. p. 14. ISBN  978-0-253-21092-0.
  5. ^ Haigh, Sam (2000). Mapping a Tradition: Francophone Women's Writing from Guadeloupe. MHRA. ISBN  978-1-902653-20-4.
  6. ^ Manicom, Jacqueline (1972). Mon Examen de Blanc: Roman. Editions Sarrazin.
  7. ^ Manicom, Jacqueline (1974-01-01). La graine: Journal d'une sage-femme (in French). (Presses de la Cité) réédition numérique FeniXX. ISBN  978-2-258-18771-9.
  8. ^ Romero, Ivette. “The Umbilical Cord: Motherhood and Displacement in the Work of Jacqueline Manicom.” Mango Season: Journal of Caribbean Women’s Writing 13, no. 1 (2000): 32–42.
  9. ^ Wilson, Betty (1987). "Sexual, Racial, And National Politics: Jacqueline Manicom's "Mon examen de blanc"". Journal of West Indian Literature. 1 (2): 50–57. ISSN  0258-8501. JSTOR  23019559.
  10. ^ Paravisini-Gebert, Lizabeth (Winter 1992). "Feminism, Race, and Difference in the Works of Mayotte Capécia, Michèle Lacrosil, and Jacqueline Manicom". Callaloo. 15 (1): 66–74. doi: 10.2307/2931400. JSTOR  2931400.
  11. ^ Goolcharan-Kumeta, Wendy (2003). My mother, my country : reconstructing the female self in Guadeloupean women's writing. Oxford: P. Lang. ISBN  3-906769-76-3. OCLC  51728380.
  12. ^ Meehan, Kevin (Fall 2006). "Romance and Revolution: Women's Narratives of Caribbean Decolonization". Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature. 25: 291–306.
  13. ^ Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American biography. Franklin W. Knight, Henry Louis, Jr. Gates. Oxford. 2016. ISBN  978-0-19-993580-2. OCLC  952785428.{{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link) CS1 maint: others ( link)

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jacqueline Manicom
A young woman with brown skin and coiffed hair, wearing a strand of shiny beads
Jacqueline Manicom in 1961
Born1935
Guadeloupe
Died1976
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).

Early life

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.

Career

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]

Personal life

Manicom married philosophy professor Yves Letourneur. They had two children. She died in 1976, aged 41 years. [2] [4] [13]

References

  1. ^ The new Oxford companion to literature in French. Peter France. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1995. ISBN  0-19-866125-8. OCLC  32305141.{{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: others ( link)
  2. ^ a b Zancarini-Fournel, Michelle; Kramer, Regan (2019). "Contraception and abortion in the French Antilles (Guadeloupe and Martinique, 1964-1975)". Clio. Women, Gender, History (50): 89–112. ISSN  2554-3822. JSTOR  27077496.
  3. ^ Zimra, Clarisse. “Society’s Mirror: A Sociological Study of Guadeloupe’s Jacqueline Manicom.” Présence Francophone 19 (1979): 143–156.
  4. ^ a b Springfield, Consuelo López (1997). Daughters of Caliban: Caribbean Women in the Twentieth Century. Indiana University Press. p. 14. ISBN  978-0-253-21092-0.
  5. ^ Haigh, Sam (2000). Mapping a Tradition: Francophone Women's Writing from Guadeloupe. MHRA. ISBN  978-1-902653-20-4.
  6. ^ Manicom, Jacqueline (1972). Mon Examen de Blanc: Roman. Editions Sarrazin.
  7. ^ Manicom, Jacqueline (1974-01-01). La graine: Journal d'une sage-femme (in French). (Presses de la Cité) réédition numérique FeniXX. ISBN  978-2-258-18771-9.
  8. ^ Romero, Ivette. “The Umbilical Cord: Motherhood and Displacement in the Work of Jacqueline Manicom.” Mango Season: Journal of Caribbean Women’s Writing 13, no. 1 (2000): 32–42.
  9. ^ Wilson, Betty (1987). "Sexual, Racial, And National Politics: Jacqueline Manicom's "Mon examen de blanc"". Journal of West Indian Literature. 1 (2): 50–57. ISSN  0258-8501. JSTOR  23019559.
  10. ^ Paravisini-Gebert, Lizabeth (Winter 1992). "Feminism, Race, and Difference in the Works of Mayotte Capécia, Michèle Lacrosil, and Jacqueline Manicom". Callaloo. 15 (1): 66–74. doi: 10.2307/2931400. JSTOR  2931400.
  11. ^ Goolcharan-Kumeta, Wendy (2003). My mother, my country : reconstructing the female self in Guadeloupean women's writing. Oxford: P. Lang. ISBN  3-906769-76-3. OCLC  51728380.
  12. ^ Meehan, Kevin (Fall 2006). "Romance and Revolution: Women's Narratives of Caribbean Decolonization". Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature. 25: 291–306.
  13. ^ Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American biography. Franklin W. Knight, Henry Louis, Jr. Gates. Oxford. 2016. ISBN  978-0-19-993580-2. OCLC  952785428.{{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link) CS1 maint: others ( link)

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