Sylvia Pankhurst
Natural Born Rebel

Sylvia Pankhurst was a powerhouse of a human being--feminist, antifascist, anticolonialist, antiimperialist, antiracist, passionately in favour of justice, participatory democracy, respect for human rights, improving the material reality of people's lives, respect for work and workers. And she was a......more

Sylvia Pankhurst was an astonishing activist, applying an intersectional feminist sensibility to her women’s rights activism generations decades before other white women in the movement began to catch on to a long-held practice of women of color. Jailed repeatedly for her suffrage activism, she paced......more

The Pankhurst name was familiar to me. The name occasionally came up on quiz shows. I knew that the name came up in connection with the struggle to get women the vote in the UK. This is as far as my knowledge took me. So when I saw this book on goodreads, it jumped out to me. I had to read it right......more

Sylvia Pankhurst: Natural Born Rebel by Rachel Holmes sweeps the reader along as we revisit much of 20th century history. This is so much more than just a biography of a remarkable woman, this is a history of some of the major struggles of last century. I tend to read several books at a time and when......more