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Radio 4,26 Feb 2015,45 mins
Elaine Feinstein; When dating preferences become racist; Emer O'Toole
Woman's HourAvailable for over a year
Is body hair still a feminist issue? Academic and author Emer O'Toole believes it is - she stopped shaving for three years, as part of an attempt to overcome social expectations of what her body should be. She joins Jenni to talk hairy armpits and bending gender stereotypes. In the 1929 general election women voted on the same terms as men for the first time and their vote was dubbed "the flapper vote". Gaby Hinsliff and Dr Rosie Campbell discuss how political parties have categorised women to target their votes. Poet Elaine Feinstein talks about women, poetry and Sylvia Plath; and why younger women no longer want to have it all.
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