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REEVES, RACHEL: : WOMEN OF WESTMINSTER: The MPs Who Changed Politics. [Foreword by Mary Beard.]

LONDON.I.B. TAURUS/Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.,2019.

ISBN 9781788312202.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,illustrated,1st edn.NMINT/NMINT.[Wrapped+protected from day of issue/purchase, so no owner inscrptn,no price-clip - absence of publisher's price - possibly an export edn,these generally believed to be issued before the trade issue in the country of origin.Bright,crisp, clean,white background with 6 female MPs thumbnail b/w portraits illustrated dw/dj with and purple and green lettering to front,white letters to green+purple vertical striped background on spine/backstrip; rear panel of a white background with adjacent,vertical green+ purple stripes to edges illustrated with 2 female MPs thumbnail b/w portraits and 4 female political commentators purple+green lettered reviews; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping, creasing to edges and corners – no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean without blemish; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound – no dog-ear reading creases to any pages’ corner tips – pristine - unread apart from my own collation.Publisher’s bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original plain purple cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt lettered spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,illustrated,1st edn,vii-xviiipp+2-311pp [paginated] includes illus list/table, acknowledgements,List of notable 'firsts for women in the House of Commons,fore-word by Mary Beard,author's introduction,8 and an Epilogue,an Afterword,16pp of b/w+colour contemporary biographical photographs in 1 block,between pp150/51an appendix,notes,a select bibliography and an index.Plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a contents list/table,and to the rear 6pp blanks. In 1919 Nancy Astor was elected as the Member of Parliament for Plymouth Sutton,becoming the first woman MP to take her seat in the House of Commons.Her achievement was all the more remarkable given that women (and even then only some women) had only been entitled to vote for just over a year. In the past 100 years,a total of 491 women have been elected to Parliament.Yet it was not until 2016 that the total number of women ever elected surpassed the number of male MPs in a single parliament.The achievements of these political pioneers have been remarkable - Britain has now had two female Prime Ministers and women MPs have made significant strides in fighting for gender equality from the earliest suffrage campaigns to Barbara Castle's fight for equal pay to Harriet Harman's recent legislation on the gender pay gap.Yet the stories of so many women MPs have too often been overlooked in political histories. In this book, Rachel Reeves brings forgotten MPs out of the shadows and looks at the many battles fought by the Women of Westminster,from 1919 to 2019. Author is the Labour MP for Leeds West and Chair of Business,Energy and Industrial Startegy Committee.She is the author of 'Alice in Westminster: The Political Life of Alice Bacon.' Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

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