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Overview
Sylvia Pankhurst fought militantly for a woman's right to vote, inspiring movements around the globe. But the vote was just the beginning. A talented artist, a free-spirit, a visionary, Sylvia was seen as “wild,” even by the standards of her activist mother and sister. She became a radical feminist, committing herself to the fight for reproductive rights, equal pay, access to welfare and education, and freedom of sexual expression. She converted her experiences of torture, imprisonment, and violence into a lifelong quest to champion human rights.
Encompassing both World Wars and lasting through the Anti-Apartheid Movement, Pankhurst's political life was international in scope; it included Irish independence, pacifism, the rights of refugees, and the fight against racism in Europe, the Indian subcontinent, and colonial Africa. Her United States lecture tours made headlines and connected her with both American feminists and the NAACP. She spent her life in dialogue, dispute, and resolution with Winston Churchill, Vladimir Lenin, Jomo Kenyatta, Haile Selassie, Harriot Stanton Blatch, and W.E.B. DuBois. And she wrote about it all, prolifically.
In this enthralling biography, acclaimed author Rachel Holmes interweaves Pankhurst's rebellious political and private lives to show how her astonishing achievements continue to resonate today.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781408880418 |
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Publisher: | Bloomsbury USA |
Publication date: | 12/15/2020 |
Pages: | 976 |
Sales rank: | 184,706 |
Product dimensions: | 6.20(w) x 9.30(h) x 2.30(d) |
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Table of Contents
Preface xii
Part 1 How To Make A Feminist 1882-1898 1
1 Authority 3
2 Red Doctor 21
3 The Home News & Universal Mirror 49
4 Family Party 69
5 That Scarlet Woman 97
Part 2 Decade Of Dilemma 1898-1908 115
6 Not Things Seen, Always the Things Imagined 117
7 Pankhurst Hall 135
8 Queer Hardie 163
9 The Labour Party - Our Party … a Reality at Last! 181
10 Strange Tangle 205
Part 3 Rage Of Militancy 1908-1914 229
11 The Art of Struggle 231
12 Insurgence of Women 253
13 O you daughters of the West! 283
14 Bridge, Balls, Dinners 301
15 American Letters 317
16 Sex War 339
17 Not as Suffragettes, But as Sisters 351
18 Cat and Mouse 381
19 Sylvia's Army 407
Part 4 In The Red Twilight 1914-1924 427
20 Peacework 429
21 The Dogs of War 447
22 Mothers' Arms 461
23 Welcome to the Soviets 485
24 Anti-Parliamentarianism 509
25 Sylvia's Communist Odyssey 527
26 Comrade Pankhurst 545
27 Discontent on the Lower Deck 565
28 Left Childishness? 589
Part 5 Modern Times 1924-1945 605
29 The Red Cottage Tea Room 607
30 Free Love 627
31 Fascism as It Is 657
32 The National Anti-Fascist Weekly 673
33 War in Woodford 703
Part 6 African Consciousness 1945-1960 731
34 Suffragette & Son 733
35 The Village 749
36 Patriot 767
37 Look for Me in a Whirlwind 779
38 Ethiopia Observer 799
39 Iron Lion Zion 815
Afterword: When I am Gone 837
Abbreviations 842
Notes 843
Select Bibliography 907
Index 917