{"product_id":"suffragette-fascists-emmeline-pankhurst-and-her-right-wing-followers-9781526756886","title":"Suffragette Fascists: Emmeline Pankhurst and Her Right-Wing Followers","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYet 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 realize. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this book, Simon Webb explores the real world of the suffragettes and the woman they idolized as 'the Leader', discovering that the movement indeed foreshadowed the rise of fascism during the 1930s.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Webb, Simon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/05\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Pen and Sword History\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781526756886\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208","brand":"Simon Webb","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32962873688139,"sku":"9781526756886","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0021\/1697\/6715\/products\/img_f8ad5c71-8b2b-419e-9653-df7cfac9b2be.jpg?v=1605739746","url":"https:\/\/blackbookstore.com\/products\/suffragette-fascists-emmeline-pankhurst-and-her-right-wing-followers-9781526756886","provider":"Black Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}