Breaking damaging relationship patterns, 50 years since the first women's liberation conference

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.1 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Next month sees the fiftieth anniversary of the first Women’s Liberation conference at Ruskin College, Oxford. The event produced four key demands for equal pay, equal education and job opportunities, free contraception and abortion on demand, and 24-hour nurseries – and it is widely seen as a defining moment in the development of Second Wave Feminism. Jenni discusses its significance and legacy with the organiser of the 1970 meeting, Sally Alexander and with the historian Selina Todd.

In parts of of Uganda, men are pressuring their wives into breastfeeding them before their babies. New research has explored why and how men are doing this, and how the practice may be coercive. We’re joined by a researcher on the project, Dr Rowena Merritt, and BBC reporter in Kampala, Patricia Oyella.

And, how do we break damaging relationship patterns and what does research tell us about what makes relationships strong and healthy? Jenni is joined by Penny Mansfield, co-director of the relationships charity One Plus One and Simone Bose who works for Relate.

Presenter: Jenni Murray Producer: Ruth Watts

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0:00.0	Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless
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0:21.0	And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less
0:25.0	searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:35.0	Hello Jenny Murray welcoming you to the Women's Hour Podcast for Thursday, the 29th of January.
0:42.0	It's 50 years since the first Women's Liberation Conference was held in the UK.
0:47.8	What did men and women make of the proposals that were put forward?
0:51.1	What does one of the organizers recall of the event and what real impact
0:56.3	did it have? And the series of women we've heard discussing their damaging relationships.
1:01.9	We put some of their woes to specialists in relationships. their It's generally assumed that the milk a woman produces in her breasts after childbirth
1:17.2	is solely for the purpose of feeding her child. It's been found that in parts of Uganda men are pressuring their wives into breastfeeding
1:26.8	them before they feed their babies, leading to worries that the women are finding it difficult
1:32.0	to provide enough nutrition for their infants. Research into why this is
1:37.1	happening has been carried out by the University of Kent and Kiambago
1:41.4	University in Kampala.
1:43.5	Patricia O'Yala is the BBC's reporter in Kampala and joins us from there.
1:48.5	Dr Rowena Merritt is a research fellow at the Center of Health Service Studies in Kent and joins us from there.
1:55.7	Ryana, what prompted you and Dr Peter Rokundo to begin to research this subject?
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