Thomas Paine
24th May 2010, 13:41
Emily Pankhurst was born in Manchester in 1858. Her family had a tradition of radical politics and she stepped into that mould becoming a passionate campaigner for women's right to vote.
She married Richard Pankhurst who supported the women's suffrage movement and his death in 1898, was a great shock to Emily.
After his death, she threw herself into the women's suffrage movement forming the Women's Franchise league in 1898.
In 1903 she formed the more militant Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) It was through the WSPU that the political action gained the group the term women's suffragete movement.
She led a passionate group of women who were willing to take part in drastic action such as tieing to railings, smashing windows and launching demonstrations.
The government and establishment were somewhat shocked at the tactics of the women and many were arrested. When they went on hunger strike they were force fed or released only to be rearessted - something known as cat and mouse.
Before, the First World War, the women's suffrage movement gained increased exposure polarising public opinion.
It was in 1913 that Emily Davison was killed when throwing herself under the King's horse. However, at the outbreak of war in 1914, Emily Pankhurst used her campaining tactics to support the war effort - announcing a temporary truce in the women's suffrage campaign.
In the war effort women were drafted into factories and took on many jobs previously the presever of men such as bus drivers and postmen. The radical social change of the first world war helped to diminish the opposition to women getting the vote and in 1918, women over the age of 30 were given the vote.
In 1929, the voting age for women was reduced to the same age as men.
Emily died shortly after her life's goal was achieved.
It is important to remember the oppression women still face up to this day.
if the working class male is the slave of the capitalist.
Then his wife is the slave of that slve
She married Richard Pankhurst who supported the women's suffrage movement and his death in 1898, was a great shock to Emily.
After his death, she threw herself into the women's suffrage movement forming the Women's Franchise league in 1898.
In 1903 she formed the more militant Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) It was through the WSPU that the political action gained the group the term women's suffragete movement.
She led a passionate group of women who were willing to take part in drastic action such as tieing to railings, smashing windows and launching demonstrations.
The government and establishment were somewhat shocked at the tactics of the women and many were arrested. When they went on hunger strike they were force fed or released only to be rearessted - something known as cat and mouse.
Before, the First World War, the women's suffrage movement gained increased exposure polarising public opinion.
It was in 1913 that Emily Davison was killed when throwing herself under the King's horse. However, at the outbreak of war in 1914, Emily Pankhurst used her campaining tactics to support the war effort - announcing a temporary truce in the women's suffrage campaign.
In the war effort women were drafted into factories and took on many jobs previously the presever of men such as bus drivers and postmen. The radical social change of the first world war helped to diminish the opposition to women getting the vote and in 1918, women over the age of 30 were given the vote.
In 1929, the voting age for women was reduced to the same age as men.
Emily died shortly after her life's goal was achieved.
It is important to remember the oppression women still face up to this day.
if the working class male is the slave of the capitalist.
Then his wife is the slave of that slve