Jacqueline Manicom (1935 – 1976) was a Guadeloupean writer, professor, broadcaster, feminist, and midwife, author of the novels Mon examen de blanc (1972) and La graine : journal d'une sage-femme (1974).

Manicom worked at a public hospital in Paris as a young woman.

In the late 1960s she worked with Simone de Beauvoir on women's rights in France, was a founding member of Choisir la Cause des Femmes (CHOISIR), and especially focused her activism on the legalization of abortion.

[3][4] Manicom wrote two autobiographical novels in French,[5] Mon examen de blanc (1972)[6] and La graine : journal d'une sage-femme (1974),[7] both stories of Caribbean immigrant women in medical settings,[8] both with themes of race, class, gender, and sexuality in the context of French colonialism and French Caribbean independence.

[9][10][11][12] Manicom married philosophy professor Yves Letourneur.