Manicom, Jacqueline (1935-76). Born into a large rural family of East Indian origin in Guade-loupe, Jacqueline Manicom qualified in midwifery, and played an important role in family planning and the feminist Choisir movement. The semi-autobiographical Mon examen de blanc (1972) charts a black woman doctor's sexual and political liberation. La Graine: journal d'une sage-femme (1974), set in a large Parisian maternity hospital, amplifies the plea for women's rights through case-histories of poor, often immigrant, mothers and sketches of Caribbean junior staff.
— Bridget Jones
