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Sylvia Pankhurst de Rachel Holmes

Sylvia Pankhurst

Autor Rachel Holmes
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 sep 2021

Imagineați-vă celulele reci ale închisorii Holloway, unde o femeie refuză hrana și îndură tortura sistematică, nu doar pentru un ideal abstract, ci pentru demnitatea fundamentală a sexului său. Aceasta nu este doar o scenă de revoltă, ci punctul de plecare al unei vieți care a redefinit radicalismul britanic. Credem că Sylvia Pankhurst de Rachel Holmes reușește să scoată la lumină o figură monumentală care, deși a trăit în umbra faimoasei sale mame, Emmeline Pankhurst, a fost, în fapt, cea mai vizionară dintre sufragete. Găsim în această carte o documentare exhaustivă a transformării unei artiste într-o forță politică globală, a cărei voce a răsunat dincolo de dreptul la vot, ajungând până în Etiopia în lupta împotriva fascismului. Narativul amintește de The Pankhursts de Martin Pugh prin intensitatea cu care reconstituie tensiunile dintr-o familie de activiști faimoși, însă Holmes aduce o profunzime psihologică aparte, explorând prețul personal al dizidenței. În contextul operei sale, Rachel Holmes continuă explorarea figurilor feminine care au sfidat normele epocii, metodă pe care a perfecționat-o în Eleanor Marx. Stilul este unul cinematic, transformând cele aproape o mie de pagini într-o cronică alertă a rezistenței. Este o lucrare despre curajul de a fi „oaia neagră” a unei familii de eroi, despre ruptura dureroasă de mamă și soră pentru a rămâne fidelă propriilor principii socialiste și umanitare.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781408880456
ISBN-10: 1408880458
Pagini: 976
Dimensiuni: 130 x 198 x 64 mm
Greutate: 0.8 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această biografie cititorilor pasionați de istorie politică și feminism care caută o perspectivă nuanțată asupra mișcării sufragetelor. Veți descoperi că Sylvia Pankhurst a fost mult mai mult decât o activistă pentru vot; a fost o pionieră a drepturilor omului la nivel global. Este o lectură densă, dar extrem de recompensatoare, care recuperează moștenirea unei femei ce a refuzat compromisul, oferind o lecție de integritate politică valabilă și astăzi.

Despre autor

Rachel Holmes este o biografă britanică de renume, cunoscută pentru abilitatea sa de a aduce la viață figuri istorice complexe și adesea neînțelese. Printre lucrările sale de succes se numără Eleanor Marx, o analiză a primei feministe moderne, și The Secret Life of Dr James Barry, despre unul dintre cei mai enigmatici medici ai erei victoriene. Holmes este co-editoare a volumului „Fifty Shades of Feminism”, demonstrând un interes constant pentru intersecția dintre viața personală și angajamentul politic. Locuiește în Londra, unde continuă să cerceteze viețile radicalilor care au modelat lumea modernă.

Descriere

'A wonderful book . Holmes sublimely illuminates Sylvia's extraordinary life' The Times

'A masterpiece' Vanessa Redgrave
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Born into one of Britain's most famous activist families, Sylvia Pankhurst was a natural rebel. A free spirit and radical visionary, history placed her in the shadow of her famous mother, Emmeline, and elder sister, Christabel. Yet artist Sylvia Pankhurst was the most revolutionary of them all.

Sylvia found her voice fighting for votes for women, imprisoned and tortured in Holloway prison more than any other suffragette. But the vote was just the beginning of her lifelong defence of human rights. She engaged with political giants, warned of fascism in Europe, championed the liberation struggles in Africa and India and became an Ethiopian patriot. Her intimate life was no less controversial. The rupture between Sylvia, Emmeline and Christabel became worldwide news, while her romantic life drew public speculation and condemnation.

Rachel Holmes interweaves the personal and political in an extraordinary celebration of a life in resistance, painting a compelling portrait of one of the greatest unsung political figures of the twentieth century.

'A monument to an astonishing life' Daily Telegraph, Best Biographies of 2020

'A robust and sensitive biography' Sunday Times, History Books of the Year

'A moving, powerful biography' Guardian

Recenzii

[A] superbly sensitive biography . It's impossible to summarise adequately a book so magnificent . A sophisticated symphony of intriguing and complex analysis, delivered in mellifluous harmony. It's a feminist book, as is appropriate to the subject, but feminist theory is used as a scalpel, not a sledgehammer . [A] wonderful book . Holmes sublimely illuminates Sylvia's extraordinary life
Sylvia Pankhurst is finally having her moment . The genius of Holmes's fascinating and important biography is that it approaches Sylvia's life as if she were a man . It's wonderfully refreshing ... It doesn't matter whether Sylvia was right or wrong in her political enthusiasms; as Holmes rightly insists, what counts is that by acting on them she helped to make history
A vivid, tender and comprehensive biography . Holmes has produced a towering tribute to a truly remarkable figure. Whether or not you sympathise with her political views, it is impossible not to be awestruck by Sylvia Pankhurst's humanity and relentless, campaigning zeal
A riveting new biography . A big book and an extraordinary life
Natural Born Rebel is an astonishing, comprehensive, personal and political cradle-to-grave biography that surely stands alone as the definitive volume on an extraordinary woman: a suffragette, activist and artist for whom sacrifice and suffering were second nature
I have fallen in love with Sylvia Pankhurst. This is a masterpiece
Stirring, sad, extraordinary . In her own time, Sylvia flamed. She was rarely off the front pages for dashing herself against various legal bulwarks and misguided conventions in the way of her ultimate prize - justice and freedom for all . On every page, there is something to amuse or absorb . One finishes the book with the impression that Sylvia lived the lives of seven women in her 78 years ... Those of us living today who do not owe her thanks in some form are very few indeed
Sylvia Pankhurst was extraordinary. Rachel Holmes's biography of her is likewise extraordinary. It draws the linkages between Sylvia's campaigns as suffragette, socialist, pacifist, anti-fascist, anti-racist, anti-colonialist, as a campaigner for improved maternal health, as an honorary Ethiopian; the links between the practical organiser, strategic thinker, artist, poet, editor and writer . It charts a life of purpose; a life that made a difference; a life that still inspires
Let me make this very clear Sylvia Pankhurst is a most important book in British publishing of the twenty-first century. I want to say "the most important" cause that's what I feel. In this exquisitely timed biography Holmes enlightens us to a "key protagonist in the development of British Democracy." This rare gem shines in Natural Born Rebel and blinds authority with an indomitable spirit. Holmes captures it all and more besides. Read this book and discover what a true rebel is. Feel her heart beat corrugate your own, sense the tremor of her voice and the clench of her molten fist forged in Manchester and shaped by Parkurstian rebel DNA. Sylvia Pankhurst was protesting that black lives matter before the term was invented. There would be no Greta Thunberg and no Malala Yousafzai were it not for Sylvia Pankhurst. Natural Born Rebel speaks to us now more than ever! Read it and be enriched. Read it to understand our society now. Read it for your daughters and for your sons and when the time is right give it to them
No one writes history quite like Rachel Holmes with her astounding gift for animating the past and revealing its uncanny contemporary relevance. After the stunning achievement of Eleanor Marx, raising the unsung nineteenth-century heroine from obscurity and the dead, Holmes has lifted the bar yet again. Sylvia Pankhurst tells an epic tale of the last century that speaks so presciently to current dark times. The intimate, national and global adventures of this great and brave woman are recounted with colour and precision. Schisms in the first family of feminism and on the left, the winds of world wars and liberation. Love, loss, rivalry and betrayal, but also solidarity and hope for the future. All of human life is here in a perfect read for the hard season to come
A spectacular work by one of the most accomplished biographers writing today. Rachel Holmes's Sylvia peels away the mystique and misinformation surrounding the life of perhaps the most interesting and complex of the mighty Pankhurst women ... Exploring her passions, relationships and motivations, in a landscape of global instability and political inferno, Holmes has forged an intricate, sensitive and irresistible portrait of a woman who is entirely relevant today
Such a big life deserves a big book, especially when it is written with political understanding and tremendous sympathy for women in politics
[A] monumental biography . Holmes' book brings us in gorgeous technicolour the scope of Pankhurst's lifelong political activism as it interwove and sometimes painfully conflicted with her personal life
Fine and wonderfully refreshing