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Cover: 9788028335946 | My Own Story | Emmeline Pankhurst | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2023
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My Own Story
A Militant Suffragette Memoir of Votes for Women, Hunger Strikes, and First-Wave Feminist Resistance
Taschenbuch von Emmeline Pankhurst
Sprache: Englisch

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My Own Story is a forceful political autobiography that chronicles the struggle for women's suffrage in Britain through the experiences of the Women's Social and Political Union. Pankhurst recounts meetings, arrests, hunger strikes, and confrontations with government authority, presenting militancy not as spectacle but as a moral strategy born of political exclusion. Its style is lucid, combative, and testimonial, combining memoir, manifesto, and documentary history. Published in 1914, it belongs to the broader literature of reform and feminist self-witness, standing beside suffrage speeches, pamphlets, and prison narratives as a record of democratic crisis. Emmeline Pankhurst was shaped by Manchester radicalism, early exposure to abolitionist and feminist ideas, and her marriage to Richard Pankhurst, a barrister and supporter of women's rights. As founder of the WSPU, she transformed private grievance into organized public action. Her legal frustrations, bereavement, socialist associations, and repeated imprisonment all inform the book's urgency and uncompromising tone. Readers interested in feminist history, political rhetoric, and social movements will find this indispensable. It offers not detached recollection but a participant's argument for justice, revealing both the cost and necessity of collective resistance.
My Own Story is a forceful political autobiography that chronicles the struggle for women's suffrage in Britain through the experiences of the Women's Social and Political Union. Pankhurst recounts meetings, arrests, hunger strikes, and confrontations with government authority, presenting militancy not as spectacle but as a moral strategy born of political exclusion. Its style is lucid, combative, and testimonial, combining memoir, manifesto, and documentary history. Published in 1914, it belongs to the broader literature of reform and feminist self-witness, standing beside suffrage speeches, pamphlets, and prison narratives as a record of democratic crisis. Emmeline Pankhurst was shaped by Manchester radicalism, early exposure to abolitionist and feminist ideas, and her marriage to Richard Pankhurst, a barrister and supporter of women's rights. As founder of the WSPU, she transformed private grievance into organized public action. Her legal frustrations, bereavement, socialist associations, and repeated imprisonment all inform the book's urgency and uncompromising tone. Readers interested in feminist history, political rhetoric, and social movements will find this indispensable. It offers not detached recollection but a participant's argument for justice, revealing both the cost and necessity of collective resistance.
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Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9788028335946
ISBN-10: 8028335942
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Pankhurst, Emmeline
Hersteller: Sharp Ink
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Copycat s.r.o., 22, Holesovice, Schnirchova 662, ?-170 00 Prague, kristoferpaetau@gmail.com
Maße: 229 x 152 x 12 mm
Von/Mit: Emmeline Pankhurst
Erscheinungsdatum: 23.11.2023
Gewicht: 0,387 kg
Artikel-ID: 128160247
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