She quotes some optimistic visions from young girls in the final chapter and we could do with some more uplifting visions of the future. This book was published in 2018 on re-reading parts of it, I wonder how she would have written it in 2021. Helen Pankhurst has a chapter on Power, where she doesn’t award marks, as it is an issue which pervades all the previous topics. Helen Pankhurst: Deeds not words, Topics (chapter headings) as marks out of 5 awarded by the author: Identity: including marriage, sexual rights, motherhood rights, Image and make-up, hair, clothes, adverts, female illnesses,Ĭulture: magazines, children’s books, media, social media and internet, theatre, film, art, sport, women’s organisations, religion, However, a wide-ranging analysis in Helen Pankhurst’s 2018 book reminds us to see the broader picture and be optimistic on some counts. With the recent increase in violence against women, and two particularly bad years during Covid, with evidence coming out that women took on the bulk of homeschooling, and views that women working from home may well miss out on promotion at work, we might well think everything was going backwards in society for women.
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