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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She Speaks: The Power of Women's Voices, by Yvette Cooper, reviewed by Benjamin Goodwin
