Edith Summerskill
The Life and Times of a Pioneering Feminist Labour MP
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2022
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-25242-4 (ISBN)
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-25242-4 (ISBN)
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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.
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.
Mary Honeyball is a former Labour MEP who represented London from 2000-2019. She is author of Parliamentary Pioneers: Labour Women MPs 1918-1945 (2015).
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
Erscheinungsdatum | 15.07.2022 |
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Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
ISBN-10 | 1-350-25242-5 / 1350252425 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-25242-4 / 9781350252424 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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