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Emmeline Pankhurst

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British political activist in the the nineteenth and twentieth centuries who organised the suffragette movement and helped women win the right to vote in Britain.

The importance of Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928) and her family to the feminist movement in Britain is well-established and has been celebrated for some time. The Pankhurst family's complex relationship to imperialism, however, is less well known. After the First World War, for instance, Emmeline spent a number of years in Canada and North America, where she promoted support for the British Empire and eugenic feminist ideas of "race betterment".

By way of contrast, Emmeline's daughter, Sylvia Pankhurst (1882-1960), was an ardent feminist, socialist, anti-fascist, and anti-colonialist. Sylvia broke with her mother's leadership in 1914 and went on to defend Ethiopia during the Italian Invasion of 1935-1937. Sylvia formed a close friendship with Emperor Haile Selassie and died in Ethiopia in 1960.

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15 July 1858

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14 June 1928

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Pankhurst, Sylvia

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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

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Vron Ware, 'All the rage: decolonizing the history of the British women's suffrage movement', Cultural Studies, 34, 4 (2020) 521-545

Angela Davis, Women, Race, and Class (New York: Random House, 1981)

Antoinette Burden, Burdens of History: British Feminists, Indian Women, and Imperial Culture, 1865-1915 (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1994)

Katherine Connelly, Sylvia Pankhurst: Suffragette, Socialist and Scourge of Empire (London: Pluto Press, 2013)

June Pervis, 'Emmeline Pankhurst in the Aftermath of Suffrage, 1918–1928', in The Aftermath of Suffrage: Women, Gender, and Politics in Britain, 1918–1945 , ed. by Julie V. Gottlieb and Richard Toye (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) 19-37

Sarah Carter, '"Develop a Great Imperial Race": Emmeline Pankhurst, Emily Murphy, and Their Promotion of "Race Betterment" in Western Canada in the 1920s', in Finding Directions West: Readings that Locate and Dislocate Western Canada's Past, ed. by George Colpitts and Heather Devine (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2017) 133-150

Vron Ware, Beyond the Pale: White Women, Racism, and History (London: Verso, 1992)