Emmeline Pankhurst

secolo XIX, il sindacalismo operaio era una realtà solida e consistente solo in Gran Bretagna (Trade Unions), poi crescono (Italia, 1906, CGL) La questione femminile Solo in Gran Bretagna il movimento si fa notare dalla opinione pubblica (Emmeline Pankhurst) concentrando le sue attività nell’agitazione per il diritto al suffragio (donde il nome di suffragette dato alle sue militanti) e ricorrendo a forme di protesta ( 1918 voto alle donne in GB. Comunque movimenti sempre guardati con sospetto

citizens. ................................. , they were not allowed to vote. In 1903, the campaign for women’s suffrage was intensified by the founding of the Women’s Social and Political Union: the WSPU - associated particularly with Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters. WSPU members, known as “suffragettes“, became increasingly violent in the years before the World War One, as successive governments failed to reform the voting laws. ..........................., the harsh manner in which

the very concept of the masculinized state as a powerful web of institutions run by men to protect allegedly maternally privatized, domesticated women. Any woman (such as suffragists Huda Sha’rawi in Egypt, Alice Paul in the United States or Emmeline Pankhurst in Britain) or any man (such as the nineteenthcentury reformer John Stuart Mill) who tries to topple this pillar propping up the state can be labeled not merely a ‘radical’, but a threat to state security, or what is mistakenly called ‘national