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Edith Summerskill: The Life and Times of a Pioneering Feminist Labour MP by Mary Honeyball
Edith Summerskill: The Life and Times of a Pioneering Feminist Labour MP by Mary Honeyball
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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.
Publisher: Bloomsbury AcademicPublication date: 2022-07-14
Pages: 280
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781350252424-N
Dimensions: 240.0 x 165.0 x 30.0 mm
Weight: 0.607 kg
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