《争权之路》【内容简介】

　　本书集中展现了英国19世纪末，尤其是20世纪初至“一战”前，妇女参政论者（Suffragettes,以妇女社会政治联盟的活动为主）争取投票权，与各党派人士、议会、官员的纠缠斗争，对群众号召发动的全过程。从打断发言、代表团请愿，到绝食、砸玻璃、烧邮箱、烧废弃房屋、破坏画作甚至自殉赛马场。作为标杆人物的埃米琳·潘克赫斯特通过自己的讲述，辅之珍贵的历史照片，将这一幕幕波澜壮阔的画面呈现在我们面前，妇女参政论者的勇敢无畏和坚定不屈跃然纸上。

　　埃米琳·潘克赫斯特将毕生心血都投入争取妇女投票权的努力之中，本书的写作主旨如作者所言，是“向世人简明扼要地陈述英国妇女革命的前因后果”“让未来的读者更清晰地感受到战斗的艰苦卓绝与奋不顾身，还有女性前所未有、难以想象的勇气和战斗力，她们在领会到战斗的乐趣之后，丢掉了一切恐惧，继续抗争，直至跨越死亡之门，在途中的任何一步都不曾退缩”。这本传记的意义已经超越了个人事迹的陈述，成为对那场动人心魄的选举权之战的热忱记录。

　　【作者简介】

　　埃米琳·潘克赫斯特（EmmelinePankhurst，1858－1928）

　　英国政治活动家，被誉为英国“妇女选举权之母”。1903年，她创建妇女社会政治联盟。

　　20世纪初她掀起了一场英国历史上绝无仅有的妇女参政运动，她的思想理念决定了这场运动的方向。

　　1999年，美国《时代周刊》把她评为20世纪最重要的百位人物之一，称她“塑造了我们这个时代女性的观念，使社会进入一个全新模式，从此再没有回头路”。

　　每年的7月15日被英国定为埃米琳·潘克赫斯特日，以纪念这位为妇女选举权作出重要贡献的倡导者。

　　【译者简介】

　　孙洁，世界史硕士，前图书编辑，现素质教育行业从业者，擅长社科图书的策划、翻译。

"The Road to Power" 【 Content Introduction 】

This book focuses on the whole process of the Suffragettes (dominated by the activities of the women's social and political Union) fighting for the right to vote in Britain at the end of the 19th century, especially from the beginning of the 20th century to the "First World War", and the entanglement struggle with various parties, parliaments and officials, and the call to the masses. From interrupting speeches and delegations to petitioning, to hunger strikes, smashing Windows, burning mailboxes, burning abandoned houses, destroying paintings and even committing suicide at a racetrack. As a benchmark figure, Emmeline Pankhurst, through her own narrative, supplemented by precious historical photos, will present this magnificent picture in front of us, and the courage and determination of the suffragettes appear on the paper.

Emmeline Pankhurst devoted her life to the struggle for women's suffrage, and the purpose of this book, as the author puts it, is to "give the world a concise account of the causes and consequences of the British women's revolution" "so that future readers can more clearly feel the hardship of the battle, the risk of death, and the unprecedented and unimaginable courage and fighting power of women." Having learned the joy of battle, they shed all fear and continued to fight until they crossed the gates of death, not flinching a single step along the way." The significance of this biography has gone beyond a personal statement to become a passionate record of the thrilling battle for suffrage.

【 About the author 】

EmmelinePankhurst (1858-1928)

British political activist, known as the "mother of women's suffrage" in Britain. In 1903, she founded the Women's Socio-Political Union.

At the beginning of the 20th century, she set off a women's suffrage movement unique in British history, and her ideas determined the direction of this movement.

In 1999, Time magazine named her one of the 100 most important people of the 20th century, saying she "shaped the idea of women in our time and set society on a new paradigm from which there is no turning back."

July 15 is celebrated in the United Kingdom as Emmeline Pankhurst Day in honor of the woman who made important contributions to women's suffrage.

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Sun Jie, with a master's degree in world history, is a former book editor and now a practitioner in quality education industry. She is good at the planning and translation of social science books.