Nelly Roussel

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Nelly Roussel was a pioneering French feminist, neo-Malthusian activist, and orator known for her advocacy of birth control, women’s rights, and social reform in the early 20th century.

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instanceOf French feminist
human
neo-Malthusian activist
orator
writer
advocatedFor legal access to birth control information
reform of marriage laws
voluntary motherhood
women’s bodily autonomy
countryOfCitizenship France
era early 20th century
ethnicGroup French people
familyName Roussel
fieldOfWork family planning
maternal health
sexual education
social reform
women’s reproductive rights
givenName Nelly
hasNotableRole one of the first public advocates of birth control in France
pioneer of French neo-Malthusian feminism
languageOfWorkOrName French
movement birth control movement
feminism
free thought
neo-Malthusian
surface form: neo-Malthusianism

secularism
name Nelly Roussel self-link
nativeLanguage French
notableFor advocacy of birth control
advocacy of women’s rights
campaigns for social reform in early 20th-century France
public lectures on sexuality and motherhood
occupation essayist
feminist activist
journalist
lecturer
opposed criminalization of contraception
patriarchal family structures
pronatalist policies in France
placeOfActivity France
Paris
placeOfBirth France
politicalAlignment anticlerical
radical left
sexOrGender female

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