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| | | Reviews / Comptes Rendus | Labour/Le Travail, 55 | The History Cooperative |
 | | Pankhurst's position on class and socialism comes across, however, less as a considered acknowledgement that class and gender might compete than an unthinking dismissal of, for example, the complexity of the position of working-class women, disadvantaged by both class and gender. |
 | | In many ways, Emmeline was an extraordinary political figure, able to inspire a great mass of women around the world, but a poor politician, whose very passion and intensity blunted the acumen necessary to achieve her goals through timely compromise and the building of alliances. |
 | | Emmeline's ruthless dismissal of long-time friends such as the Pethick-Lawrences, Ethel Smyth, and her own daughters, Sylvia and Adela, when they dared to disagree with her politically, is quite breathtaking, to say nothing of the sheer nastiness of Christabel, the favoured scion. |
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