Everywoman: One Woman’s Truth About Speaking the Truth

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Leveraging tokenism - accept that spot as the token woman on the all-male panel but bring your own demands. Before this she worked with victims of domestic violence, sexual violence and human trafficking, and continues to speak out on behalf of those who struggle to have their voice heard. She is a feminist who can articulate how equality should be a positive thing for men as well as women, someone who fights for families who refuses to value anyone by the number of children they have and a real humanitarian. I love the fact that she has a potty mouth and is also very brazen and open about her reservations about her life as an MP. Observer _____________________ This title now has a new cover and there is a chance that you may receive the edition with the old cover instead of the cover displayed here.

How could Jess’s experience as a young women hanging out with men in Birmingham be so like my own in Batley? The thin cardboard envelope the book was posted in had ripped and Royal Mail had to put it in one of their plastic envelopes. A passionate advocate for equality, her feminism isn’t academic, it’s real, earned from years working at the coalface of Women’s Aid. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item.Before she entered parliament, Phillips worked for the charity Women’s Aid, and she continues to speak up for domestic-violence victims. I can imagine the audiobook would be amazing; you can really hear her authentic voice just through her writing!

The only women who treat their relationships as a hobby are vulnerable, unlike the men, who presumably have no context of their own. For all the humour, Jess manages the delicate balancing act of weaving the personal into the political.

She was elected in 2015 and the outspoken, straight-talking former Women’s Aid business development manager has rarely been out of the press since.

Damian Barr’Everywoman has all the laughs [of Lena Dunham and Caitlin Moran] with a backbone of real glinting anger . She doesn't mention anyone who is transgender within the binary - Julie Burchill's influence, perhaps? There is little mention of any BAME women in this book, which does in some way make sense as it’s mostly a personal account of Jess’ experiences, but I really would have thought that such an important and trailblazing woman such as Dianne would have made it into the book.

Her experience working for a charity that helps women who have been victims of abuse has given her an insight into the worst that men can do to women.

She captures so brilliantly the confusion of being a teenage girl, being aware of her sexuality but unaware of some men’s bad intentions. Only time will tell, and she's not as passionately socialist or pro-worker as she is pro-women, but in the most part she embodies what an MP should be, a citizen who has worked her way up to a place where she can influence laws for the better. I found Phillips has a refreshing writing style that feels like you are talking with a friend, not an MP. It does feel like she is pointing out a lot of the flaws of her male counterparts, and in one very upsetting passage, she praises Jacob Rees-Mogg after bashing her own party leader.

Jess Phillips’s Everywoman is naughty, frank and a sizzling celebration of how being ordinary can change the world. The section on trolling was particularly upsetting - nobody should have to endure that level of abuse online. 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.