She Speaks: The Power of Women's Voices, by Yvette Cooper, reviewed by Benjamin Goodwin
In She Speaks, the Labour MP and chair of the Home Affairs Committee celebrates women’s voices through history. It features speeches from 30 women, from Boudica to American gun-control activist and Parkland survivor Emma González, Margaret Thatcher to Greta Thunberg. The speeches were chosen for a simple reason, says Cooper. “They are all women of whom I have thought, ‘She speaks, I must listen.’” She introduces each with a personal reflection, most movingly for Jo Cox’s speech. The book challenges traditional collections of oratory that have been so dominated by men’s voices.
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