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• Feminists—Great Britain—Biography [Browse]
• Suffragists—Great Britain—Biography [Browse]
• Pankhurst, E. Sylvia (Estelle Sylvia) 1882-1960 [Browse]

Summary note

'Offers a convincing evaluation of Pankhurst's role in Marxist politics after 1918.' History TodayIn a long and active life (1882-1960), Sylvia Pankhurst was a tireless activist for a variety of radical causes, including women's suffrage, labour movement and international solidarity campaigns. She made pioneering contributions to gender and class politics, revolutionary communist politics and the struggles against imperialism, racism and fascism. In addition, Pankhurst founded and edited four newspapers, and wrote and published twenty-two books, and numerous pamphlets and articles.In this biography, Mary Davis provides a much-needed reappraisal of a woman whose contribution to a wide variety of causes is too often marginalised or overlooked, whether as the employer of the first black journalist in Britain - the activist and writer Claude McKay - or as an early campaigner for pan-Africanism. Pankhurst's changing affiliations and commitments - from her early suffragette activities, though her involvement with disenfranchised and impoverished women in London's East End, to her passionate embrace of the Soviet revolution, the cause of communism worldwide and the fight against imperialism and fascism - mirror the history of radical politics in the twentieth century. Mary Davis's lucid and accessible account of Pankhurst's political life restores a remarkable woman to her rightful place in twentieth-century history.

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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language note

English

Contents

• Intro
• Contents
• Abbreviations
• Foreword
• Biographical Note and Political Background
• Introduction
• 1 Separate Spheres - the Labour Movement and the Women's Suffrage Movement
• The Labour Movement
• The Women's Movement
• 2 The Women's Social and Political Union
• Women's Suffrage vs Adult Suffrage
• The WSPU and the Labour Movement
• The Democratic Deficit in the WSPU
• WSPU 'Terrorism'
• The NUWSS and the Labour-Suffrage Alliance
• 3 The East End, the First World War and the Revolutionary Tide
• Expulsion
• The First World War
• The War and the Labour Movement
• The War, the Women's Movement and the ELFS
• 4 Feminism and Socialism
• Women's Suffrage
• Post-Suffrage: Feminism in the Inter-war Years
• 5 Communism
• Communist Unity and the Communist Party of Great Britain
• The WSF
• Sylvia Pankhurst and Lenin
• Unity Talks
• The Workers' Dreadnought: Sylvia's Expulsion
• Women and Communism
• 6 Anti-imperialism, Anti-racism and Anti-fascism
• Imperial Ideology, Eugenics and Racism
• Imperialism, the Labour Movement and Sylvia
• Anti-fascism and Ethiopia
• 7 Assessment
• Notes
• Chapter 1
• Chapter 2
• Chapter 3
• Chapter 4
• Chapter 5
• Chapter 6
• Chapter 7
• Bibliography
• Primary sources
• Secondary sources
• Index
• Abrahams, Peter 115
• adult suffrage
• 28
• 59
• 60
• vs. women's suffrage 13
• vs. women's suffrage 15-16
• vs. women's suffrage 23-7
• Aliens Immigration Bill 101
• Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners 102
• Amalgamated Society of Engineers 27
• Amritsar Massacre [1919] 106
• Amsterdam conference [1919] 82
• Anglo-Ethiopian Agreement 115
• Anthony, Susan B. 21
• anti-fascism
• 107-9
• 114
• anti-feminism
• 9-10
• 23-4
• anti-imperialism
• 99-100
• 106
• 108
• 110
• 111
• anti-parliamentarianism
• 61
• 76
• 78
• 79-80.
• 82
• 84
• anti-racism
• 94
• 105-6
• 111-13
• 116
• anti-Semitism
• 101-2
• apartheid 105-6
• Arnot, R.Page 93
• Asante, S.K.B. 111
• Asquith, H.H.
• Asquith, H.H 23
• Asquith, H.H 26
• Asquith, H.H 31
• Asquith, H.H 40
• Asquith, H.H 44
• Asquith, H.H 45
• Asquith, H.H 54
• Balfour, A.J. 101
• Barnes, Annie 37
• Bax, E.Belfort
• 9-11
• 12
• Bebel, A. 10
• Bell, Hesketh
• big navy programme 101
• Billington Greig, Teresa
• 24-5
• 29
• biometrics 96
• birth control 64
• Black Friday 89-90
• black labour 102-3
• black soldiers 103-5
• Blatchford, Robert 101
• Blood, H.R.R. 110-11
• Boer War [1899-1901]
• 99
• 101
• Bolshevism, fear of 61
• Bondfield, Margaret 24-5
• Britannia 45
• British Socialist Party [BSP]
• 11-14
• 47
• 52
• 72
• 73-4
• to Lenin 78-9
• Brittain, Vera 114
• Broadhurst, Henry 6
• Burns, Emile 93
• Busia, Dr A.K. 112
• Caine, Barbara 107
• Caird, Mona 67
• Call , The
• 73
• 78-9
• 85
• 102
• Canning Town Hall rally 44
• Chamberlain, Joseph 98
• Chartist movement 9
• Christian Commonwealth 44
• Clarion, The 101
• class
• and gender 1
• and gender 2
• and gender 3
• and gender 59
• Clitheroe by-election [1902]
• 17
• 34
• Clyde Workers' Committee
• 66
• Co-operative Women's Guilds
• 14
• 18
• 71
• Comet 111
• Comintern [Third [Communist] International]
• 75
• 83
• 89
• 119
• Common Cause 48
• communism
• 63
• 64
• 71-93
• communist/social democratic split 75
• unity 73-85
• Communist International 78
• Communist Labour Party 85
• Communist newspapers 87
• Communist Party of Great Britain [CPGB]
• 73-9
• 85-9
• 90
• 93
• Communist Party-British Section of the Third International [CP [BSTI]]
• 81
• 84-5
• 86
• Communist Unity Convention [1920] 83.
• Communist Unity Convention, Leeds [1921] 85
• Communist, The
• 88
• Connolly, James
• 41
• 57
• Cook, A.J. 90
• Cooper, Selina [Nelson]
• 21
• 27
• cooperative housekeeping
• 91
• Corio, Silvio
• 107
• 120
• Crawford, Helen 93
• Cressall, Nellie
• 2-3
• 37
• Daily Herald
• 49
• 103-5
• Daily News 52
• Daily Worker 50
• Dangerfield, G. 44
• Darwin, Charles 95
• Davison, Emily Wilding 69
• Defence of the Realm Act [1914]
• 56
• Despard, Charlotte
• Dickenson, Sarah 18-19
• Drake, Charlotte
• 51
• DuBois, W.E.B.
• 105
• 111-12
• Dutt, R. Palme 93
• East London Federation of Suffragettes [ELFS]
• 32
• 43
• 44
• 50
• and equal pay 51-3
• and First World War 44-5
• and First World War 48-54
• cost-price restaurants 49
• cost-price restaurants 63
• shift to left 55
• shift to left 71
• toy factory 49
• toy factory 63
• universal suffrage 52
• universal suffrage 53-4
• war work 48-51
• East London Federation of Women's Social and Political Union [ELF]
• 38
• expulsion from WSPU 38-44
• East London, ESP's work in
• 8
• 35
• 36-54
• Easter Rising [1916]
• 46
• elections
• 62
• 80
• Emerson, Zelie 38
• Engels, F. 10
• Eritrea 115
• Esedebe, P.O. 111
• Ethiopia
• 108-16
• after Second World War 114-16
• solidarity conference 115
• Ethiopia Observer 116
• eugenics
• 65
• 96
• 98
• Evening Times 49
• Fabian Society
• 74
• 100
• family allowances
• 64-5
• 69
• progeny fund 68
• family wage
• 6
• 68
• Fawcett, Millicent
• 20
• 33
• feminism
• and eugenics 96
• and socialism 11
• and socialism 18-19
• and socialism 26-7
• and socialism 55-70.
• and socialism 55-70
• and socialism 91-2
• inter-war years 62-70
• First World War
• 44-54
• and employment 47
• and labour movement 46-8
• and women's movement 54
• industrial truce 46-7
• Political Union [WSPU] 44-6
• Ford, Isabella
• 22
• 25
• Franchise and Registration Bill [1912] 16
• Franchise Bill [1917] 59-60
• Francis, J.E. 29
• Gallacher, Willie
• Galton, Francis 96
• Gandhi, M.K. 106
• Garvey, Amy Ashwood 111
• Garvey, Marcus 111
• German revolution
• Ghose, G.H. 106
• Glasier, Bruce 20
• Gollancz, Victor 113
• Gore-Booth, Eva
• 18-19
• 24
• Gorter, Herman 86
• Gould, F.J. 12
• Government of India Act [1919] 106
• Hall, Leonard 11-12
• Hands Off Russia Committee 74
• Hardie, [James] Keir
• 14-16
• 40
• 53
• 77
• Henderson, Arthur
• Herald League
• Hitler, Adolf
• 95
• Holmes, Walter
• Holton, Sandra 44
• Home Front, The [Sylvia Pankhurst] 49
• Hungarian revolution
• hunger strikes
• 31
• Hyndman, H.M.
• Hyndman, H.M 47
• Hyndman, H.M 101
• Hyndmanism 86
• imperialism
• 97
• 98-107
• 112
• 121
• imprisonment
• Independent Labour Party [ILP]
• 9
• and First World War 47
• and immigration 101
• and racism 103
• and socialist unity 73
• and socialist unity 74
• and socialist unity 77
• and women's suffrage 19
• and women's suffrage 20-1
• India
• anti-colonial struggle 57
• anti-colonial struggle 106-7
• women's oppression 108
• Inkpin, Albert
• International African Friends of Abyssinia [IAFA] 111.
• International African Opinion 113
• International African Service Bureau [IASB]
• 113
• International Federation of Trade Unions 89
• International Women's World Committee against War and Fascism 114
• International Workers of the World [IWW] 105
• internationalism
• Irish independence struggle
• Italy
• and fascism 107-8
• declaring war on Britain 114
• factory occupations 82
• invasion of Ethiopia 109
• invasion of Ethiopia 110-11
• James, C.L.R.
• James, C.L.R 111
• James, C.L.R 113
• Jolly George 74
• Journal of Ethiopian Studies 116
• Justice
• 11-12
• 13
• Kenney, Annie 41
• Kenyatta, Jomo
• Kidd, Benjamin
• Kollontai, Alexandra
• Labour Leader, The
• 15
• 16
• labour movement
• 6-18
• and fascism 107
• and feminism 27
• and feminism 121
• and imperialism 99-101
• and imperialism 102
• and racism 102-3
• and racism 109-10
• and racism 121
• and socialist revolution 56-7
• and women's suffrage 23
• and women's suffrage 25-6
• and women's suffrage 43
• anti-war stance 55-6
• ESP's impatience with 82-3
• patriarchy 6
• patriarchy 10
• rank and file militancy 46
• rank and file militancy 55
• rank and file militancy 65
• Labour Party
• 16-18
• and adult suffrage 27-8
• and First World War 46-8
• and maternity benefits 69
• and social democracy 80-1
• and women candidates 61
• and women's suffrage 34
• and women's suffrage 39-40
• communist affiliation 76-7
• communist affiliation 80
• communist affiliation 81
• communist affiliation 83
• communist affiliation 88
• Labour Record , The 28.
• Labour Representation Committee [LRC] 16-17.

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ISBN

• 9781849640725
• 1849640726

OCLC

923329878

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