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Edith Summerskill: The Life and Times of a Pioneering Feminist Labour MP Honeyball, Mary (Former Labour MEP, UK)
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Edith Summerskill: The Life and Times of a Pioneering Feminist Labour MP
Honeyball, Mary (Former Labour MEP, UK)
Edith Summerskill was a remarkable politician, feminist, physician, campaigner and writer. At a time when there were few powerful women in public life, Dr Edith, as she was known, served in Clement Attlee's transformational post-war Labour government and oversaw the National Insurance scheme which solidified the welfare state in Britain. Here, Labour MEP Mary Honeyball, provides the first biography of this remarkable early pioneer for women in politics. Honeyball shows how Edith Summerskill's direct campaigning was instrumental in promoting women's causes throughout her life and lays out her remarkable achievements in securing the equal rights of housewives and divorced women over property. This is a uplifting and enlightening account of a forgotten Labour hero.
288 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | July 14, 2022 |
| ISBN13 | 9781350252424 |
| Publishers | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Pages | 280 |
| Dimensions | 165 × 241 × 29 mm · 608 g |
| Language | English |
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