276:. Bodin was an editor. In an article on prostitution and prostitutes published in l'Ouvrière on 15 April 1925, Bodin denounced the hypocrisy of giving men and women unequal access to sex education. She noted sarcastically "Men affect to leave women ignorant of the acts of sexual love for the fulfillment of which, however, they require the collaboration, acquiescence or submission of women ... The woman does not need to know what is being done with her. This does not concern her."
339:"les hommes affectent de laisser les femmes dans l'ignorance des gestes de l'amour sexuel pour l'accomplissement desquels, cependant, il faut tour au moins la collaboration, l'acquiescement ou la soumission des femmes ... La femme n'a pas besoin de savoir ce que l'on fait avec elle. Cela ne le regarde pas."
100:, but otherwise nothing in her background predestined her to become a revolutionary. She had a typical education for the period, and married a professor of medicine. Her husband, Eugène Bodin, was head of the faculty of medicine in Rennes, so they were well-to-do. This later earned her the sobriquet
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283:, most of the committee was male. Bodin directed the federation of Ille-de-Vilaine from 1921–24, when her health broke down and she was replaced by Marcel Sevestre. A supporter of the left opposition, and opposed to the exclusion of
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was a rough city at the turn of the century where alcoholism was endemic, there was no money for a girls' school, and the municipal council openly complained about the shortage of brothels. The second
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