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My own story / Emmeline Pankhurst.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pankhurst, Emmeline, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pankhurst, Emmeline, 1858-1928.
- Pankhurst, Emmeline.
- Women--Suffrage--Great Britain.
- Women.
- Suffragists--Great Britain--Biography.
- Suffragists.
- Feminists--Great Britain--Biography.
- Feminists.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (306 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- [Auckland, New Zealand] : The Floating Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- With insight and great wit, Emmeline’s autobiography chronicles the beginnings of her interest in feminism through to her militant and controversial fight for women’s right to vote. While Emmeline received a good education, attending an all-girls school and being, she rebelled against conventional women’s roles. At the age of fourteen a meeting of women’s rights activists sparked a lifelong passion in her to fight for women’s freedom and she would later claim that it was on that day she became a suffragist.As one after another of the proposed feminist bills were defeated in parliament, Pankhurst was inspired to turn to extreme actions. While she was the figurehead of the suffragette movement, it advocated some controversial tactics such as arson, violent protest and hunger strikes. Even today there is still debate about the effectiveness of her extreme strategies, but her work is recognised as a crucial element in achieving women's suffrage in Britain. Her mantle was taken up by her daughters and granddaughter with her legacy still very much alive today.
- Contents:
- Title; Contents; Acknowledgment; Foreword; BOOK I - THE MAKING OF A MILITANT; Chapter I; Chapter II; Chapter III; Chapter IV; BOOK II - FOUR YEARS OF PEACEFUL MILITANCY; Chapter I; Chapter II; Chapter III; Chapter IV; Chapter V; Chapter VI; Chapter VII; Chapter VIII; BOOK III - THE WOMEN'S REVOLUTION; Chapter I; Chapter II; Chapter III; Chapter IV; Chapter V; Chapter VI; Chapter VII; Chapter VIII; Chapter IX; Endnotes
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 2, 2016).
- ISBN:
- 1-77659-727-3
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