Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi
Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi
“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.” – Audre Lorde
A review of THE CURE FOR WOMEN: Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Challenge to Victorian Medicine That Changed Women’s Lives Forever, a book by Lydia Reeder on Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi—physician, teacher, and suffragist. In 1876 (or thereabouts), she wrote an influential paper rebutting the idea that menstruation is a pathology that should prevent women from participating fully in society.
Read more about her on Wikipedia.
NYT, Dec 6 2024.
A review of THE CURE FOR WOMEN: Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Challenge to Victorian Medicine That Changed Women’s Lives Forever, a book by Lydia Reeder on Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi—physician, teacher, and suffragist. In 1876 (or thereabouts), she wrote an influential paper rebutting the idea that menstruation is a pathology that should prevent women from participating fully in society.
Read more about her on Wikipedia.
It's never too late to learn about women in history who've paved the way for others. So much women's history seems to be suppressed or just outright ignored because men still hold most of the power, and they don't see women's achievements as relevant or historical, the way they see men's achievements.
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