Eluned Morgan, Female right-wing US campaigners, The history of understanding women's bodies

Woman's Hour

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Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Eluned Morgan is the first woman in history to be first minister of Wales. She was appointed earlier this summer after her predecessor, Vaughan Gething, resigned. What does her appointment mean for women in Wales? What policies will she be focusing on? She joins Anita Rani to discuss all this and more.

From spongy flesh to wandering wombs, there have been many theories about the inner workings of women across the centuries. In her new book, Immaculate Forms, Professor Helen King talks about how scientific theories and religious beliefs have shaped our understanding of women’s bodies, from Ancient Greece to the present day.

In the US, a rising number of women are joining a wave of right-wing campaigning on social media. Journalist Layla Wright went to the US to meet three of these women in an attempt to understand more about what has influenced their political beliefs. She joins Anita to discuss what she found.

Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Laura Northedge

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0:00.0	How did the richest people on the planet make their fortunes?
0:05.0	I'm Simon Jack and I'm Zing Singh.
0:08.0	Join us for good bad billionaire.
0:09.0	Each episode we pick a billionaire and we find out how they made their money like the comedian Jerry
0:14.5	Seinfeld the financier George Soros the golf star Tiger Woods then Simon and I
0:19.6	have a decision to make do we think they are good, bad or just another billionaire?
0:24.3	Good bad billionaire. Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:27.8	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:34.0	Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.
0:39.0	Good morning, welcome to Woman's Hour. Sexual fantasies. Most people have them, but how comfortable are you talking about them?
0:47.0	Jillian Anderson was talking to the BBC's Katie Razzle about her new book which is a collection of women's sexual fantasies. She mentions Nancy Friday's book from
0:56.6	1953 My Secret Garden which brought female desires to worldwide attention.
1:02.0	Women still struggle and share in this book about how much they struggle to think about it, to talk about it,
1:10.0	was quite an eye-opener because it was evident to me in Nancy Friday's book and I would
1:16.8	have thought there would be less of it today.
1:21.1	Well it got us talking in the woman's hour office so we thought we'd involve all of you in the conversation.
1:25.9	How about you?
1:27.1	Are you confident enough to discuss what goes on in your head with your partner or friends?
1:31.8	Would you never go there because it's your fantasy and
1:34.0	yours alone? Have you tried to talk about it and it all go wrong? Have you tried to
1:38.2	live out your fantasy or your partners? Share your tales with me this morning and you can of course remain anonymous.
1:45.0	Is this a very unprittish thing to do or is it time to shed the shame?
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