Chivalry, Sex, 90s Teenagers
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2020
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Is chivalry dead? What is chivalry these days? Is it picking up the bill and opening a door? Is it just up to men or should women be chivalrous too? Podcaster and writer Tolly Shoneye talks about it with Amanda who's dating now.
“To say that humans have overthought sex is something of an understatement.” That's according to Dr Kate Lister, a university lecturer who set up the Whore of Yore project in 2015. It tried to start a conversation about the history of sex. Her latest book is called A Curious History of Sex and in it she explores the strange and baffling things human beings have done over the centuries in pursuit and denial of sex.
Sexual violence in literature: do we need to find the right language to talk about it properly? And how can reading classic novels like Samuel Richardson’s 18th century, ‘Pamela’, help us understand issues of consent better? Professor Rebecca Bullard and crime writer, Val McDermid join me to discuss.
Were you a teenager in the 90s? Went to raves and house parties? We've been delving into archives of the The Museum of Youth Culture. They've got a touring exhibition called “Grown Up in Britain” which is showcasing objects from teenage culture through the decades. Today we hear from Molly, who was part of the party scene in 90s London.
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| 0:00.0 | Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless |
| 0:06.8 | searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the |
| 0:11.8 | telly we share what we've been watching |
| 0:14.0 | Fladiated. |
| 0:16.0 | Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming. |
| 0:19.0 | Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige. |
| 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. |
| 0:30.0 | BBC Sounds music radio podcasts. |
| 0:34.4 | Hello Jenny Murray welcoming you to the Women's Our Podcast for Friday, the 14th of February. |
| 0:40.3 | Good morning. On Valentine's Day we discuss chivalry and research which suggests it's dead. |
| 0:47.0 | Why might a bunch of flowers pulling out a woman's chair or opening a door for her |
| 0:52.0 | be considered too dated for a 21st century date. |
| 0:56.6 | As the Weinstein trial continues and radio for broadcasts equal as we are, a thousand years |
| 1:02.2 | of not listening, how do we find a language for sexual |
| 1:05.7 | violence that is neither frightening nor titillating? |
| 1:10.4 | We look to the literature of the 18th century and the modern crime novel. |
| 1:14.0 | And the next in our series of teenage girls today it's Molly who in the 90s was out in London's free party scene. |
| 1:22.0 | In the introduction to a book called in London's free party scene. |
| 1:28.8 | In the introduction to a book called A Curious History of Sex, Dr Kate Lister writes |
| 1:33.8 | to say that humans have overthought sex is something of an understatement. She's a lecturer in the School of Arts and Communication at Leeds Trinity University who |
| 1:38.3 | set up a project called the Hore of Y your in 2015. |
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