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Changing Minds and Challenging Prejudices

How art, design, literature and film are challenging gender attitudes

With Tina Daheley.

From India how one young artist is using fabric design to send a message about women's experience of public transport in the country. Also in the programme how Egyptian cinema is beginning to reflect the reality of sexual harassment for women in Cairo and from Gaza, what political art can tell us about the changing role of women. Finally Jamaican novelist Marlon James describes how literature helped him gain self-acceptance.

(Photo:Roshnee Desai's taxi Credit: Amey Kadam)

27 minutes

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Sat 9 Jan 201622:32GMT
BBC World Service West and Central Africa

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  • Sat 9 Jan 201609:32GMT
    BBC World Service East and Southern Africa & West and Central Africa only
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    BBC World Service West and Central Africa

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