Mary Honeyball

Edith Summerskill (eBook, ePUB)

The Life and Times of a Pioneering Feminist Labour MP

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An Independent Book of the Month

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 an uplifting and enlightening account of a forgotten Labour hero.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350252431
• Artikelnr.: 63675017

Autorenporträt

Mary Honeyball is a former Labour MEP who has represented London from 2000-2019. She was the Labour representative in the Women's Rights and Gender Equality Committee in the European Parliament and Socialist & Democrat group co-ordinator on the Parliament's Culture and Education committee. She is also a regular blogger on women's rights, religion and politics.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Chapter 1: Early Life Chapter 2: Apprenticeship Chapter 3: The
House of Commons Chapter 4: The Second World War Chapter 5: Parliamentary
Secretary Chapter 6: Promotion Chapter 7: Labour in Opposition Chapter 8:
An Unstable World Chapter 9: The House of Lords Index