New Labour's Women MPs: Women Representing Women

by Sarah Childs

Book Overview

It was not long after the election of a record number of women to the House of Commons in 1997 that the backlash began. The criticism was all-encompassing: they wore the wrong clothes, they voted the wrong way and they were concerned with the wrong issues. Above all, they were accused of failing to make difference, to have failed women, and were dismissed by some as 'Blair's Babes'.

Drawing on in-depth interviews with more than...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0714685666
• ISBN13: 9780714685663
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.2"