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Inge de Wilde, Een sterke wilskracht: Vijf ambitieuze broers en zusters van Aletta Jacobs. Groningen: Passage, 2018, 144 pp.

Recent Dutch-Language Publications

'Colonial Manila, 1909-1912: Three Dutch Travel Accounts' chronicles the travels of suffragist and doctor Aletta Jacobs, orientalist scholar Gerret Rouffaer and ethnologist Hendrik Muller to Manila in 1910.

Dutch-authored books put spotlight on Manila

Aletta Jacobs said in her opening address in The Hague in 1915, Those of us who have convened this Congress ...

Looking back, learning moving forward

Other treats include the story of Aletta Jacobs, the daughter of a provincial Dutch doctor, who broke the gender barrier in medicine and went on to pioneer birth control and women's rights at the end of the 19th century; the tales of Paul Ehrlich and Eli Metchnikoff, of Germany and Russia respectively, who shared the 1908 Nobel Prize in Medicine for their elaboration of a theory of immunity; Chain's discovery of penicillin; Freud's development of psychoanalytic theory; and the determination of Selman Waksman to find an organism that could kill the bacteria responsible for tuberculosis.

Jewish healers through the centuries

(13.) Aletta Jacobs Gerritsen was, of course, a physician.

PORTIA ANTE PORTAS: WOMEN AND THE LEGAL PROFESSION IN EUROPE, ca. 1870-1925

When Carrie Chapman Catt and Aletta Jacobs lost their husbands, members comforted and consoled the two women.

Worlds of Women: The Making of an International Women's Movement

Dutch IWSA leader and WILPF founder Aletta Jacobs can be counted among the more sexually progressive members who recognized not only women's sexual nature but also the possibility of lesbianism.

Sexuality and politics in the early twentieth century: the case of the international women's movement