Jacqueline Manicom

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).

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

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. 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. 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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