Alice Bunker Stockham
American activist
Died when: 79 years 25 days (948 months)Star Sign: Scorpio
Alice Bunker Stockham (November 8, 1833 – December 3, 1912) was an obstetrician and gynecologist from Chicago, and the fifth woman to become a doctor in the United States.
She promoted gender equality, dress reform, birth control, and male and female sexual fulfillment for successful marriages.A well-traveled and well-read person who counted among her friends Leo Tolstoy and Havelock Ellis, she also visited Sweden and from her trips to schools there she brought back the idea of teaching children domestic crafts, thus single-handedly establishing shop and home economics classes in the United States.
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