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Item Details
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BODIES POLITIC
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| By: |
Michiel Heyns |
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Paperback |
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£13.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1868422984 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781868422982 |
| Publisher: |
JONATHAN BALL PUBLISHERS SA |
| Pub. date: |
7 March, 2008 |
| Pages: |
311 |
| Synopsis: |
Against the background of massive public events - the tenacious, at times violent struggle for the vote for women and the First World War - "Bodies Politic" examines, in fictionalised form, the private lives of the participants in these events, focused through the highly articulate accounts of three suffragettes. Moving, dramatic and at times grimly humorous, "Bodies Politic" is an entirely original account of great love and bitter resentment, political victory and personal defeat; but ultimately of the indomitable spirit that escapes the shackles of the body. The three women who look back on a past they shared, not always harmoniously, are Emmeline Pankhurst, the formidable leader of the Women's Movement; her daughter Sylvia, 'the weeping suffragette'; and, the enchanting Helen, who was loved by Harry, the neglected son of Emmeline and beloved brother of Sylvia. Through the narrative of each woman flits the figure of Christabel, Mrs Pankhurst's favourite daughter: selfish, vain but irresistible.The three accounts, sometimes contradictory, sometimes confirmatory, movingly reconstruct Harry's last days and the human entanglements behind the public acts of the time: Sylvia's sacrifice in bringing Helen to Harry's bedside, Emmeline's bitterness at Sylvia's act, and Helen's ambivalence about Sylvia's extraordinary request: 'Tell him you love him; he has only three weeks to live.' |
| Publication: |
South Africa |
| Imprint: |
Jonathan Ball Publishers SA |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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