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Informationen zum Autor 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 Examines segregation and its impact on social divisions and the peace process. Katherine Connelly has written an important work on my mother Sylvia Pankhurst. Packed with new historical information which makes her life and times come alive it is a fascinating and very readable biography which does much to explain my mother's political evolution from Suffragette to Anti-Fascist. -- Professor Richard Pankhurst Kate Connelly's book brings to life the politics and personality of one of the most important women in the history of the British left. She does so against a background of the socialist and feminist ideas of the early 20th century, in a way which makes those ideas and her subject relevant to a new generation fighting for their rights. -- Lindsey German, author of How a Century of War Changed the Lives of Women Zusammenfassung Lively and accessible biography of Sylvia Pankhurst! from suffragette to anti-Fascist activist. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman 2. Suffragettes! Socialism and Sacrifice 3. Working for their own Emancipation 4. Resisting the War 5. Sylvia's Communism 6. Anti-Fascism 7. Fighting Imperialism in War and Peace Notes Index
