A Suffragette in America

Informationen zum Autor E. Sylvia Pankhurst was an English campaigner for the Suffragette movement, a prominent left communist and, later, an activist in the cause of anti-fascism. Katherine Connelly is a writer, historian and an expert on Sylvia Pankhurst. She is the author of the biography Sylvia Pankhurst: Suffragette, Socialist and Scourge of Empire (Pluto, 2013) and editor of A Suffragette in America: Reflections on Prisoners, Pickets and Political Change (Pluto, 2019). Klappentext This book is a collection of Sylvia Pankhurst's writing on her visits to North America in 1911-12. Unlike the standard suffragette tours which focused on courting progressive members of America's social elite for money, Pankhurst got her hands dirty, meeting striking laundry workers in New York, visiting female prisoners in Philadelphia and Chicago and grappling with horrific racism in Nashville, Tennessee.Adored by socialist students and progressive politicians, Pankhurst was also shocked by the dark underbelly of American society. Bringing her own experiences of imprisonment and misogyny from her political work in Britain, she found many parallels between the two countries. These never-before-published writings mark an important stage in the development of the suffragette's thought, which she brought back to Britain to inform the burgeoning working-class suffrage campaign there.The book also includes a contextualising introduction by Katherine Connelly. Zusammenfassung The story of one of Britain's most famous radicals visiting the 'Land of the Free' Inhaltsverzeichnis Photographs Acknowledgements Sylvia Pankhurst's North American Tours - Timelines Note on the Text Introduction by Katherine Connelly SYLVIA PANKHURST'S TEXT AND EDITOR'S INTRODUCTIONS Preface 1. A Strike of Laundry Workers in New York 2. Laundries from the Inside 3. A Festival 4. Prisoners 5. A Socialist Administration - The Milwaukee City Council 6. A Red Indian College 7. Universities and Legislatures 8. The South Notes Index ...

Product details

• Authors: E. Sylvia Pankhurst, Pankhurst E. Sylvia
• Assisted by: Katherine Connelly (Editor), Connelly Katherine (Editor)
• Publisher: Pluto
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.05.2019
• EAN: 9780745339368
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-3936-8
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, c 1910 to c 1919, Gender studies: women, History of the Americas, Civil rights & citizenship, Gender studies: women and girls, C 1900 - C 1914, Elections and referenda / suffrage, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs