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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: The Pankhurst family started championing women's suffrage rights in early twentieth-century Britain.
Chapter 3: Pankhurst and her daughters were charismatic, yet controversial, leaders of the WSPU.
Chapter 4: Women’s prison protests resulted in cruel, brutal treatment.
Chapter 5: Suffragettes saw property damage as an effective way to incite arrests and gain publicity.
Chapter 6: Violence wasn’t a one-sided affair, and suffragettes were just as likely to be its victims often too.
Chapter 7: Emily Davison’s notorious suicide drew mixed reactions from members within the movement.
Chapter 8: The First World War transformed both the movement and society’s attitudes toward women.
Chapter 9: The 1918 Representation of the People Act was the initial step along the path to full suffrage for women.
Description
Rise Up, Women! (2018) tells the remarkable story of the militant women’s suffrage movement in the United Kingdom. Full of fascinating insights into the women at the heart of the struggle for equality, these blinks illuminate one of the twentieth century’s first great civil rights revolutions.
Who Should Listen
- History buffs
- Feminists
- Activists