Edith Summerskill : the life and times of a pioneering feminist Labour MP
Honeyball, Mary2022
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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 a 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.
Main title:
Author:
Honeyball, Mary, author
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.
Collation:
280 pages ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9781350252424 (hbk)
Dewey class:
941.085092941.085.HON
Language:
English
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BRN:
3302441