The Uncompromising Doctor Madeleine Pelletier: Feminist and Political Activist

Nothing seemed to predispose Anne Pelletier (1874–1939), born in the dingy back room of her parents’ fruit and vegetable shop in the rue des Petits-Carreaux in Paris, to become Dr Madeleine Pelletier, anthropologist, physician, psychiatrist and feminist theoretician (Figure 4.1). Pelletier’s later w...

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