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Banners That Burned in the Street

Banners That Burned in the Street

Por Brookstone, Thalia

Publicado por epubli

English 2026
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This book investigates how the suffragette movement exchanged decorum for disruption, probing the moment when women traded petitions and polite appeals for window‑smashing, arson, and public confrontation. It traces the evolution of militant tactics—from chaining themselves to railings and storming Parliament to conducting a coordinated bombing and arson campaign—asking why, after decades of constitutional lobbying, a growing number of women chose to make their bodies and their rage the central instruments of pressure. Drawing on police files, prison records, and suffragette memoirs, the book reconstructs the mechanics of their activism: the use of public demonstrations, hunger strikes, and secret cells; the way women learned jujitsu and self‑defense to confront police violence; and the calculated staging of property damage that targeted symbols of power rather than people. It also examines how the press and state authorities framed these women as "hysterical" or "unladylike," exposing the gendered logic that condemned their aggression while accommodating similar tactics when performed by men in political conflicts.

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Banners That Burned in the Street está disponible como eBook en 7 librerías online. Entre las librerías que lo venden están Bajalibros Argentina, Bajalibros Latam, Bookshop Uruguay.

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Banners That Burned in the Street está disponible como eBook en 7 librerías online.
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