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Topic: Nelly Roussel

Sources: 1 http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=13336 2 http://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/roussel-nelly-1878-1922 3 http://go.galegroup.com.gate.lib.buffalo.edu/ps/i.do?p=GVRL&u=sunybuff_main&id=GALE%7CCX3446900725&v=2.1&it=r&sid=summon&authCount=1 4 https://books.google.com/books?id=vCFaHNoo1WcC&pg=PP12&lpg=PP12&dq=nelly+roussel+and+birth+control&source=bl&ots=Nz_qDcnto8&sig=nVGO3SSAD_5ypYQXmIZOUMx86l0&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjOo9PSm9rSAhWCTCYKHQmrCTEQ6AEIRzAJ#v=onepage&q=nelly%20roussel%20and%20birth%20control&f=false 5 https://books.google.com/books?id=91FoC1bYjPkC&pg=PA252&lpg=PA252&dq=nelly+roussel&source=bl&ots=KPY_-PnH-r&sig=CqPwH3sZ8chuyVMxdb022CcbuU8&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiI5_nHlKLTAhUj6oMKHVMnAUYQ6AEIYTAJ#v=onepage&q=nelly%20roussel&f=false

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Early Life and Family


 * She was educated at an elementary school, and then also by herself at home (n.d., 2002). #2
 * Nelly Roussel experienced difficulty during her three pregnancies (n.d., 2002). #2
 * Along with being an activist, Roussel was involved with politics as well. She testified at different trials including anti-militarist trials, like Hervé in 1905, anti-war trials, like Hélène Brion's in 1918, and created a lawsuit, which she ended up losing, against L'Autorité in 1906-07 (n.d., 2002). #2.
 * In 1920 she started a school to help teach women to be speakers (n.d., 2002). #2
 * She was raised as a catholic (Accampo, 2006). #3

Career Life


 * Roussel wrote about how she believed that sex should not just be painful and seen as only for childbirth, but also for pleasure for the woman (Davidson, 2007) #1
 * No matter marital, social, or maternal standing, she believed that women had the right to enjoy self-fulfillment in their life (Accampo, 2006). #4
 * Roussel got letters from her audience that discussed the impact she had on them (Margadant, 2000). #5