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My Own Story (Vintage Feminism Short Edition)

Emmeline Pankhurst author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:28th Jun '18

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Read the life story of the leader of the women's suffrage movement in an abridged, digestible form.

Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short form

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JESS PHILLIPS

Soldier, criminal, militant, hooligan, revolutionary: these labels Emmeline Pankhurst took up and wore proudly in her long struggle for women’s suffrage.

Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short form

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JESS PHILLIPS

Soldier, criminal, militant, hooligan, revolutionary: these labels Emmeline Pankhurst took up and wore proudly in her long struggle for women’s suffrage. This shortened edition of her autobiography tells the inside story of this struggle: the tireless campaigning, the betrayals by men in power, the relentless round of arrests and hunger strikes, the horror of force-feeding. It is a reminder of the controversial means, the indomitable spirit and the sacrifices of life and liberty by which women won their political freedom.

ALSO IN THE VINTAGE FEMINIST SHORTS SERIES:

The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

Rests somewhere between a gripping novel and a painstaking historical record. No view of the suffragette story is complete without this comprehensive puzzle piece * Independent *
She shaped an idea of women for our time; she shook society into a new pattern from which there could be no going back * Time *
She put body and soul at the service of liberty, equality and fraternity and secured a triumph for them -- Rebecca West
Emmeline Pankhurst fought for women's suffrage with indomitable courage * Guardian *

ISBN: 9781784874469

Dimensions: 178mm x 110mm x 11mm

Weight: 98g

176 pages