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'Women With X Appeal: women politicians in Britain today' available to download

4.08.52pm GMT Fri 23rd Feb 2007

'Women With X Appeal: women politicians in Britain today'

By Lesley Abdela. Published by Macdonald Optima 1989.

This paperback has now been scanned into Google Books for free downloading anywhere in the world.

Although valuable reading for the experiences of 30 women in British politics in the seminal 1980s, Women With X Appeal is out of print. It is available in libraries. For the library near you go to http://worldcat.org/wcpa/oclc/28891702

It contains interviews with senior politicians including Shirley Williams, Joan Ruddock, Bernard Weatherill, Carole Tongue, Betty Boothroyd, Christine Crawley, Janet Fookes, Virginia Bottomley, Emma Nicholson, Ann Widdecombe, Edwina Currie, and women at earlier stages in their political careers such as Zerbanoo Gifford, Doreen Miller, Angela Browning.

Some other publications by Lesley Abdela can be found at

http://worldcat.org/search?q=au%3ALesley+Abdela&qt=hot_author

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