SYLVIA PANKHURST

Along with her mother Emmeline, and her sister Christabel, Sylvia Pankhurst was one of the leading women's suffrage activists in ear ly twentieth-century England, working with the militant Women's Social and Political Union. Unlike her family, however, who looked t o parliament and spoke to elite and middle-class women's concerns, Sylvia consistently looked to working women and the labour moveme nt as central to her feminist politics.In this illuminating political biography, feminist historian Barbara Winslow recovers Sylvia Pankhurst...[Read more]