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Emmeline Pankhurst Tactics
Emmeline Pankhurst, one of the most revolutions women within history. She was born on July 14/15 1858 and at a very young age gained an understanding that males and females were definitely not treated the same. This understanding of the world, allowed Pankhurst to become the founder of the nation known “suffragettes”.
The women’s social and political union, were very strong supports for equality for women and persisted in the change Britain must seek before the nation could become one. Many did not wish women to have the right to vote as they believe that women would stop getting married and having children and therefore the British nation would die out
Voting was not only limited to women however, poor people, the insane and criminals were
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Emmeline Pankhurst would always choose to go to jail rather than to pay a fine for her actions. She opted to believe that the arrest would gain more media attention. Quickly this lead to the women being “force fed” where the women would have to be tied back to prevent from moving and a tub would be either forced into the women’s mouth or go through the nose and down the throat as far it could. Milk and Brandy was a common meal.
Soon the media came to the conclusion that force feeding was not the rightest movement and therefore the “cat and mouse” act would occur. This would mainly consist of women being sentenced to jail, hunger strike would occur, police would have to let the women out in order to become healthy again, and once they were back to their healthy status, be sentenced back to jail. This act would re-occur until the time they had to serve was fully complete.
“Vote for women”, “deeds not words”, two very well-known quotes from Emmeline Pankhurst and the Women’s social and political

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