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Suffragette fascists : Emmeline Pankhurst and her right-wing followers.

Emmeline Pankhurst is seen today as a valiant champion of democracy, but in the 1930s certain prominent former suffragettes were comparing her to Hitler and Mussolini. It was suggested that Mrs. Pankhurst and her Women's Social and Political Union could be viewed as a proto-fascist movement; an...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Webb, Simon, 1954-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Yorkshire ; Philadelphia : Pen & Sword History, 2020.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • List of illustrations
  • Introduction
  • Who were the Suffragettes?
  • The Cult of the Leader and the Rejection of Democracy
  • The Suffragettes' War on the Working Class
  • Vivisection, Sweated Labour and the 'Social Evil'
  • 1914: The Suffragettes Tackle the Enemy Within
  • Concentration Camps and Ethnic Cleansing
  • After the War
  • The Blackshirts as Natural Successors to the Suffragettes
  • The Second World War
  • Endword
  • Appendix: Five Women
  • Bibliography
  • Index.