Exercise aggression; Purity culture; The Plumage Act; Smacking

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.1 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Sports psychologist Dr Josephine Perry has some insight into what makes athletes tick, but wasn't prepared for what happened to her yesterday morning when she was doing laps at a swimming pool. A man she had overtaken pulled her under water by her feet and held her down, before shouting at her. When she shared the incident on social media her timeline filled up with women saying similar things had happened to them.

“Purity Culture” is a term used in conservative households that attempts to promote a biblical view of purity by discouraging dating and promoting virginity before marriage. Chloe speaks to two young women – Chrissie and Kirtika – about their own experiences of growing up in households that promoted purity culture.

On Thursday it'll be 100 years since the Plumage Act banned the importation of feathers for use in hat-making. At its peak in the late 1800s, the trade in plumage was placing over 60 bird species at risk of extinction. But then a group of women, led by Emily Williamson, started a 30-year campaign to ban feathers from fashion. Beccy Speight from the RSPB is hoping a series of campaigns will bring Emily Williamson's achievements back to life.

Attitudes towards corporal punishment have shifted significantly in recent decades, such that smacking is now banned in 59 countries around the world. That includes Scotland, where a smacking ban came in last year, and a similar ban is due to come into force in Wales in 2022. New research out today from University College London suggests England should follow their lead.

Presenter: Chloe Tilley Producer: Frankie Tobi

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0:00.0	Just before this BBC podcast gets underway, here's something you may not know.
0:04.6	My name's Linda Davies and I Commission Podcasts for BBC Sounds.
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0:41.0	Hello, thank you for joining me Chloe T Tilly, here on the Woman's Our Podcast.
0:45.2	Good morning and welcome to the program.
0:47.5	The Children's Commissioner for England says self-isolation from schools must be scrapped
0:52.0	as soon as possible, allowing children's lives to
0:54.7	return to normal.
0:56.2	Dame Rachel DeSousa warns of the trauma being inflicted on a generation of children.
1:01.3	Almost a quarter of a million kids are off school in England today
1:05.2	as the result of coming into close contact with someone with COVID. Just 9,000
1:10.2	children have tested positive. Now that number has quadrupled in a week and
1:14.4	figures out later today are expected to show a further rise. Now that means
1:19.0	children are missing out on the fun end-of-year activities at schools. We're talking about
1:23.6	proms, school trips, that socialization that they've missed out on over the last
1:28.1	18 months. Also for those children moving schools in September, transition days to their new schools have been
1:34.4	cancelled. My daughter was meant to be doing her transition Zoom this morning because it was
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