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World Service,16 May 1997,28 mins

Are Western Women's Magazines Too Shallow?

Everywoman

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Is the style of magazines like Cosmopolitan and Elle inappropriate for a new audience of women in the developing world? Also on the programme: Ann Cryer, MP for Keithley, reads a week in her diary of her first week in the new New Labour government, and a North American teenager talks about some of the social pressures American girls face. .

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