Why we are militant pankhurst

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Women -- Suffrage. Great Britain. All these methods had mixed reactions. Although it gained the attention of the public and the government, this attention was usually negative and used against the women and their arguments for suffrage. The reactions the public had towards suffragettes is what Emmeline Pankhurst was reacting to when she began speaking across the country, and in the United States, in an attempt to gain more support.

Content This is a speech where Pankhurst is explaining the hypocrisy of men refusing to allow women to vote, while trying to explain why it is women want to vote. Audience In this speech Pankhurst is talking to a primarily American audience. She is trying to provide them with an additional view in the struggle women are going through. Pankhurst gives these people some background to the way that men in her history have behaved in order to get their rights, by rioting and violence.

However, working class women in the suffrage movement created relationships with unions and labour parties and by they achieved partial suffrage in 29 states. This would have made the actions of British suffragettes harder for American men to understand, as they saw American women working toward the votes without using these violent means.

There were similar events going on in similar countries, such as America. Remember: This is just a sample from a fellow student. Starting from 3 hours delivery. Sorry, copying is not allowed on our website. Emmel i ne Pankhurst. I n 18 67, In Meanwhile, during the ' 80's, women, like men, were asking for the franchise.

More meetings were held , and larger, for Woman Suffrage than were held for votes for men, and yet the women did not get it.

Men got the vote because they were and would be violent. The women did not get it because they were constitutional and law- abiding. I believed, as many women still in England believe, that women could get their way in some mysterious manner, by purely peaceful methods. The Suffrage movement was almost dead. Th e women had lost heart. Pankhurst was strong-willed and believed women should fight to obtain rights in any way they could, regardless of the effects to their health.

They mainly wanted to support the British government as they opposed Germany. To support the war effort, Pankhurst began to organize rallies, deliver speeches, and lobby for the British government and the war effort.

Yet she never neglected her dedication to supporting women and advocating for their rights. During the war, she supported British women who joined the industrial production and raised young children without the support of their fathers who were at war. Her radical ideas, such as the hunger strikes and the militant tactics, represent her ability to look outside the box and create new forms of protest without harming civilians.

In a way, Pankhurst found the agency to organize many women, who without her guidance might never have been inspired to leave their homes in pursuit of their rights. Skip to main content.