Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political Activism

Published in 2021 (first published 1996)
272 pages

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Barbara Winslow is professor emerita of Women and Gender Studies at Brooklyn College, CUNY; the founder and director emerita of Shirley Chisholm Project for Brooklyn Women’s Activism at Brooklyn College; and has taught women’s, labour, and African American history at public colleges and universities in Seattle, Detroit, Cleveland, and New York City. During her graduate work with legendary social historian E.P. Thompson in England, she played a role in the early protests and conferences of the English women’s liberation movement.

What is this book about?
An extraordinary political biography of English suffragist, feminist, and socialist Sylvia Pankhurst.

In this illuminating political biography, feminist historian Barbara Winslow recovers Sylvia Pankhurst’s life and work for a new generation of socialists and feminists. From Pankhurst’s organizing with immigrant and working women in London’s East End to her revolutionary communism and growing internationalism and anti-fascism, Winslow gives us the story of a brilliantly inspiring unorthodox feminist and unorthodox socialist.

With a preface from internationally recognised socialist feminist historian and activist, Sheila Rowbotham.