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Justice Bill
An examination of the potential effects for women offenders. Juliet Lyon, Prison Reform Trust and Claire Perry, conservative MP and a member of the Justice Select Committee discuss.
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Caitlin Moran
The journalist and columnist Caitlin Moran on her new feminist book 'How to be a woman'.
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The washing machine
The Science Museum has a gallery looking at what gadgets have meant for women’s lives. Judi Herman along with the curator, Helen Pewit discussed the washing machine.
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The importance of having a birthing partner
Volunteer Birth Buddies work alongside midwives to provide support for women during labour. We visit Homerton hospital. Breedagh Hughes, Royal College of Midwives and Beverley Beech of AIMS discuss.
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Caitlin Moran
Caitlin Moran grew up in the 1980s in a council house in Wolverhampton, the eldest of eight children. By the time she was 15 she’d read lots of books about feminism – mainly to prove to her younger brother she was scientifically better than him. Now an award winning journalist and newspaper Columnist she’s rewritten “The Female Eunuch” for the 21st century. But you wouldn’t describe “How to be a Woman” as a classic feminist handbook. Part memoir, part rant she’s written candidly about her own experiences of menstruation, masturbation, pornography, misogyny, childbirth and abortion. Caitlin Moran joins Jenni in the studio to explain why she thinks the next wave of feminism needs to be as exciting as rock'n'roll.
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The importance of having a birthing partner
In 2007 at Homerton hospital in Hackney mothers from Black African, Caribbean and Asian backgrounds were experiencing more stressful labours than other mothers, resulting in a greater number of emergency caesareans and higher cases of infant mortality than the rest of London. An innovative programme was set up using Volunteer Birth Buddies, who work alongside midwives, to provide support for these women during labour. The strategy has been so successful that the service is now offered to all pregnant women at the hospital. Felicity Finch attended a Birth-Buddy birth. Are volunteer doulas a great way of improving maternity services or a cheap way of coping with midwife shortages? Jenni is joined by Breedagh Hughes, Royal College of Midwives and Beverley Beech chair of AIMS – a charity which campaigns for improvements in maternity services.
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Justice Bill
The Justice Bill has finally been published. Woman’s Hour examines the potential effects for women offenders in the rethinking of sentencing, reducing reoffending, and the treatment of addiction and mental health issues in prison. Jenni is joined by Juliet Lyon, director of the Prison Reform Trust and Claire Perry is conservative MP for Devizes and a member of the Justice Select Committee.
Prison Reform Trust report - Reforming Women's Justice -
The washing machine
The Science Museum in London has a gallery called The Secret Life of the Home. Continiuing our series looking at what these gadgets have meant for women’s lives, Judi Herman went to the gallery in the company of the curator, Helen Pewit. They discussed how washday began to change forever around the middle of the last century
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BBC Radio 4Wed 22 Jun 2011 10:00 BBC Radio 4
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