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What Women Want: A Review of “Political Women” by Maggie Andrews
Just because women have been formally excluded from politics for much of recorded history does not mean they have not been political actors. Even when disenfranchised and denied equal rights, women have fought for causes important to women and all people. Political Women by historian Professor Maggie Andrews (2024, Pen & Sword History) demonstrates this by exploring fifteen campaigns led by British women during the twentieth century that shaped the current century.