Deeds Not Words: The Story of Women's Rights - Then and Now

Written by Helen Pankhurst

Narrated by Helen Duff

On the 100th anniversary of women getting the vote, Helen Pankhurst - great-granddaughter of suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst and a leading women's rights campaigner - charts how women's lives have changed over the last century, and offers a powerful and positive argument for a new way forward.

Why is it taking so long?

Despite huge progress since the original suffragette campaigns and wave after wave of new feminism, women are still not equal. On the centenary of one of the greatest steps forward for women - the Vote - Suffragette descendent and campaigner Helen Pankhurst takes the reader on a journey exploring how women's lives have changed over the last 100 years, and how we can take things even further.

Combining historical insight with inspiring argument, Deeds not Words to be essential reading for anyone who wants to know more about how far women have come since the Suffragettes, how far we still have to go, and how we will get there.

(P)2018 Hodder & Stoughton Limited

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sceptre
• Release date: Feb 6, 2018
• ISBN: 9781473667938

Helen Pankhurst

Dr Helen Pankhurst is a women's rights activist and senior advisor to CARE International, based in the UK and in Ethiopia. She has extensive media experience including national and international radio and print interviews, and was involved in the 2015 film Suffragette. Her work in Ethiopia includes support to program development across different sectors, focused on the interests and needs of women and girls. In the UK she is a public speaker and writer on feminist issues. She also leads CARE International's Walk In Her Shoes event in London - on International Women's Day. Helen is the great-granddaughter of Emmeline Pankhurst and granddaughter of Sylvia Pankhurst, leaders of the British suffragette movement. @helenPankhurst

Reviews for Deeds Not Words

[the7ken7petersen · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Ouch! This is an embarrassing read; particularly for a man.

This book not only records the history of women's suffrage, it also examines how far we have (or often, have not) come in the fight for sexual equality. It is unbelievable to read how recent many of the improvements to a woman's lot, have been. further, it is even less acceptable to recognise how much further there is to go.

I would not dare criticise this book.