Courage Calls to Courage Everywhere

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Jeanette Winterson. Courage Calls to Courage Everywhere

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Courage Calls to Courage Everywhere is a timely and inspiring call to arms by one of Britain’s most acclaimed and important writers. Whilst recognising how far women have come in the hundred years since getting the vote, Jeanette Winterson also insiststhat we must all do much more if we are to achieve true equality. Examining recent women’s rights movements, the worlds of politics, technology and social media, and changes in the law, Winterson calls out all the ways in which women still face discrimination and disadvantage. Like the women who won the right to vote, we need to shout loud, reach out, be courageous and finish the job. Also included in this volumne is Emmeline Pankhurst’s landmark Suffragette speech, ‘Freedom or Death’, which she delivered in 1913.

women must keep re-inventing the wheel.

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This time men dragged her off her chair, but Christabel Pankhurst, who was sitting nearby, unfurled a banner that said ‘Votes For Women!’

Plain-clothes policemen came to force both women to leave. They were dragged down the aisles, men jeering either side. Annie shouted back: ‘If I am forced to leave this hall I shall hold a meeting outside!’

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