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Suffragette Fascists - Emmeline Pankhurst and Her Right-Wing Followers (Paperback)
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Suffragette Fascists - Emmeline Pankhurst and Her Right-Wing Followers (Paperback)
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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 idea likely to strike the
modern reader as grotesque. Yet the WSPU certainly had much in
common with the fascist parties that emerged after the end of the
First World War. The group was financed by wealthy and aristocratic
backers, and terrorism, in the form of bombing and arson, was
widely used against working-class men and women. This, together
with the rampant anti-Semitism and ambivalent attitude to
democracy, all indicate that there was more to the suffragettes
than we now realise. Few people today, for example, know that
Emmeline Pankhurst was an advocate of ethnic cleansing and the use
of concentration camps, nor that her daughter was imprisoned during
the Second World War for pro-Nazi activities. This helps to explain
how former suffragettes came to hold such important positions in
the British Union of Fascists in the years before the Second World
War. After all, the ideology and structure of Oswald Mosley's
fascist party was so eerily similar to that of Emmeline Pankhurst's
Women's Social and Political Union. In this book, Simon Webb
explores the real world of the suffragettes and the woman they
idolised as 'the Leader', discovering that the movement indeed
foreshadowed the rise of fascism during the 1930s.
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