Aletta Henriëtte Jacobs is a feminist icon for being the first woman to successfully finish a university education and also the first woman to become a doctor in the Netherlands, as well as her work for women’s rights, deregulating prostitution, and starting the world’s first birth control clinic. Needless to say, there was a lot of counter-pressure against the type of change that Jacobs fought for. But over the years she has become an important figure in the eyes of the Dutch people. The University Museum of Groningen has a room…
