Everywoman: One Woman’s Truth About Speaking the Truth

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I imagine people who like Phillips will like this book too, as it largely mirrors her public profile (which to be fair is consistent with her position that she is 'just herself' as an MP) of a down to earth Champion of Women's Rights. Huge swathes of women's experiences were not considered in Moran's book, because they weren't important to Moran personally.

Damian Barr 'Everywoman has all the laughs [of Lena Dunham and Caitlin Moran] with a backbone of real glinting anger . For Phillips, it was Bilocca's working class accent and the accessibility of her message that posed a threat. I attended one of Caitlin Moran’s Live tour dates on June 28th where no other than Jess herself was discussing Moran’s new publication and various taboo issues with brilliant clarity and once again that trademark honesty. 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.A potential future leader of the PLP and one of the few that would do a really good job at the Home Office, with the Prisons or Education brief or as Health Minister. It certainly raises my estimation of her when the worst people on the internet despise her as much as they do. I am political poles apart from Jess but I thank Andrew Mitchell for recommending her book and I stand shoulder to shoulder with her on women's issues.

We learn that it is only when a colleague at Woman’s Aid went to a Labour meeting and was uninspired by the candidates and her anger at the Conservative Party, that Phillips then decided to run as an MP, as she didn’t honestly see why she couldn’t. Her book is easy to read, her points easy to understand and the impact of what she fights for could be significant. The central message seemed to be that women need more confidence in their abilities, mainly in the world of work but also their capability to have a career and children. I would recommend this book to all women and to anyone who is interested in Jess Phillips; she shows that you can come from quite an ordinary place and go on to do quite remarkable things. She captures so brilliantly the confusion of being a teenage girl, being aware of her sexuality but unaware of some men’s bad intentions.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. I also liked the chapter where Jess covers self promotion and how we need to do it more, noting the fine line. She had her first cigarette at 11 and went on to “abuse” her body with “drinking, partying and not eating”. Everywoman’ is part memoir, part feminist manifesto and is an unapologetic telling of how events in Phillips’ life has shaped her feminist beliefs and her politics.