(2019) Hodder Publications
As part of her book launch, Dr Helen Pankhurst, a close friend of the Muriel Matters Society, was recently involved in re-creating the window smashing campaign by the early suffragettes.
Over a century ago, the Women’s Social and Political Union used window smashing in London, as well as a whole host of other militant tactics, to secure suffrage for the women of Great Britain. Helen is the great granddaughter of Emmeline Pankhurst and her book Deeds Not Words: The Story of Women’s Rights – Then and Now looks at suffrage and women’s rights.
Summary: Why is it taking so long? Despite huge progress since the suffragette campaigns and wave after wave of feminism, women are still fighting for equality. Why will we have to wait until 2069 for the gender pay gap to disappear in the UK? Why, in 2015, did 11% of women lose their jobs due to pregnancy discrimination? Why has 1 in 3 women in the world experienced physical or sexual violence? In Deeds Not Words suffragette descendant and activist Helen Pankhurst charts the changes in the lives of women over the last 100 years. She celebrates landmark successes and little-known victories, looking at politics, money, identity, violence, culture and social norms and turning to the voices of both pioneers and ordinary women for their perspective. Combining historical insight with inspiring argument, Deeds not Words reveals how far women have come, how far we still have to go, and how we might get there. It is essential reading for women – and men – on the most important issue of our time.
ISBN: 9781473646872
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