Everywoman: One Woman’s Truth About Speaking the Truth

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Her pride in being ‘normal’ is something she wears as a badge of honour, celebrating her Brummy accent, determined to carry on speaking in her own voice because ‘if we don’t start sounding like the public, ordinary people will disengage and we’ll be left with the Establishment holding court and we can’t have that! In the same month that labour politician Harriet Harman published the dry memoir A Woman’s Work, there comes a second by Jess Phillips, the Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley and the chair of the Women’s Parliamentary Labour Party.

I can imagine the audiobook would be amazing; you can really hear her authentic voice just through her writing! But her logic is lacking (if you think that is sexism at work, work through her logic and try again) and the little things annoy me too, keen to show she was cool when younger and never apologising for 'being who she is', as though modifying your behaviour to your environment is always just being put in your place rather than making life more pleasant.All in all, I thought this was a great read, I think Jess Phillips has a great future, she’s going to go far. Authentic, wise and honest, I found so many resonances; there were moments I had to put it down to draw breath. You certainly don't need to have an interest in politics or agree with her policies to read this book. there were so many funny and wise things on each page that whittling them down into a review seemed impossible. Brilliantly spaced between the chapter formats and her voice isn't lost like some in this structure are.

Politics really should be done differently, and generally speaking, I like those who challenge the status quo. A passionate advocate for equality, her feminism isn’t academic, it’s real, earned from years working at the coalface of Women’s Aid. Jess Phillips doesn’t actually discuss her political views to any great extent in this book, she primarily focuses on women’s issues, such as domestic violence, rape, the gender pay gap, and the ways that women are silenced in the work place. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

It is so heartening to have a politician address the matters that affect women and, ultimately, the whole of society and to do it with intelligence and humour. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This title now has a new cover and t here is a chance that you may receive the edition with the old cover instead of the cover displayed here.

Her book is easy to read, her points easy to understand and the impact of what she fights for could be significant. Partly her life story, partly her opinions on key issues such as abuse against women, the book was compelling throughout. The Engineering a Better World podcast series from The House magazine and the IET is back for series two! Let us not get this twisted or get bogged down by party politics, Jess Phillips is a fucking rock star.I am immediately recommending this to everyone I know and I'm sure my social media followers are already sick of my posting screenshot of my favourite passages. She’s so funny and strong and inspiring (her constituency is actually Birmingham Yardley) and I am fortunate to have her as my MP. The outspoken Labour MP shares empowering stories from her own life – and she tells them well” puked The Guardian in March 2017. test but making sure you’d end the evening having put the world to rights but lost both your shoes and your dignity. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged.