Gendering the Everyday in the UK House of Commons. By Cherry Miller. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. 323 pp. $85.79 (cloth). ISBN: 9783030642396.

What is worth studying in political science? Many lists would certainly feature parliaments, as democratic institutions. But who would or should be the central object of study therein? Cherry Miller’s recent book Gendering the Everyday in the UK House of Commons opens up a broader world that looks beyond Members of Parliament (MPs) and studies the gendering nature of arrangements within parliaments by means of ethnography. In Gendering the Everyday in the UK House of Commons, Miller asks: what is worth studying in the study of parliaments? In place of prevailing approaches, Miller argues for a less ceremonial focus, centering the everyday experiences of parliamentary actors and how the parliament works in practice. She proposes studying the “gendering of the everyday” or, as the subtitle of the book suggests, looking “beneath the spectacle.” Central to this analysis is Miller’s combination of practice—especially noteworthy is the ethnographic fieldwork—and theory, in particular feminist discursive institutionalism and Judith Butler’s theory of gender performativity. Miller’s book can be seen in the broader light of a more feminist political science—withmore attention to the everyday and the personal, as well as special attention to issues of gender. The book is also part of a growing body of work within and outside parliamentary studies that is more explicit about parliaments not just as democratic and representative institutions but, ultimately, as workplaces. This recognition is especially important when we look through a gender lens, where parliaments are still male-dominated and change has been slow, both in terms of parliamentary culture and percentages of (a diversity of) women participating. An everyday approach potentially makes both scrutiny and change easier. At the same time, how to study the everyday is not obvious. To this question, Miller offers ample response. Miller’s “everyday approach” uses feminist discursive institutionalism and focuses on the reproduction of gender regimes. In this