Madeleine Pelletier
Madeleine Pelletier | |
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Born | Anne Pelletier 18 May 1874 Paris, France |
Died | 29 December 1939 Perray-Vaucluse asylum near Paris, France | (aged 65)
Nationality | French |
Alma mater | University of Paris Faculty of Medicine |
Known for | Women's rights |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physician, psychiatrist |
Madeleine Pelletier (18 May 1874 – 29 December 1939)
Biography
Pelletier originally trained as an
Following her break with anthropology Pelletier went on to become a psychiatrist. In 1903, Pelletier conducted a campaign with the support of the feminist newspaper La Fronde to support the eligibility of women for all types of medical specialisation, most relevantly to the examination for psychiatric internships.[3]
She was also notable as a female
Pelletier was partially paralyzed by a stroke in 1937. However, she continued to openly practice abortion, and was arrested in 1939. Following her arrest she was interned in an asylum and her physical and mental health deteriorated. She died within the year.[5]
See also
References
- ^ Petit, Dominique (2021-06-19), "PELLETIER Madeleine [PELLETIER Anne, Madeleine]", Dictionnaire des anarchistes (in French), Paris: Maitron/Editions de l'Atelier, retrieved 2022-08-19
- ^ Charles Sowerwine, Woman's brain, man's brain: feminism and anthropology in late nineteenth-century France, in Women's History Review vol. 12, pp=289–308
- S2CID 25936628.
- ^ Claude Maignien,Charles Sowerwine, Madeleine Pelletier, une féministe dans l'arène politique
- ^ "Pelletier, Madeleine (1874–1939)". Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. 2002.
Sources
- Allen, C. S. (2003). "Sisters of Another Sort: Freemason Women in Modern France, 1725–1940". The Journal of Modern History, 75: 783–835.
- Gordon, F. (1990). The Integral Feminist, Madeleine Pelletier, 1874 – 1939, Feminism, Socialism and Medicine. Polity Press
- Sowerwine, C. (1991). "Activism and Sexual Identity – the Life and Words of Pelletier, Madeleine (1874–1939)". Mouvement Social, 157: 9–32.
- Sowerwine, C. (2003). "Woman’s Brain, Man’s Brain: feminism and anthropology in late nineteenth-century France". Women’s History Review, 12:289–307.
- Felicia Gordon, "Convergence and conflict: anthropology, psychiatry and feminism in the early writings of Madeleine Pelletier (1874—1939)," History of Psychiatry, 19,2 (2008), 141–162.