Late Night Woman's Hour: Public Space
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2016
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Where does private space for women end and public space begin? Where does a woman's right to wear, or walk, or say, what and where she wants become different to men's - on the beach? On the bus? Online? Joining Lauren Laverne to discuss:
Shelina Janmohamed, author of Generation M
Helen Lewis, Deputy Editor of the New Statesman
Becca Bunce of the disabled women's collective Sisters of Frida and co-director of the I C CHANGE campaign
Bridget Minamore journalist
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Presenter: Lauren Laverne Producer: Eleanor Garland.
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| 0:00.0 | On late night woman's hour tonight space is it the final feminist frontier |
| 0:04.6 | tonight we'll be talking about being a woman in public where does private space for women end |
| 0:10.1 | and public space begin where does a woman's right to where or walk or say what and where she wants |
| 0:16.7 | become different to men's? |
| 0:18.2 | On the beach, on the bus, online? |
| 0:20.9 | Joining me to discuss are Shalina Jan Mohammed, author of Generation M. Welcome to you. |
| 0:26.0 | Evening. Helen Lewis, deputy editor of the New Statesman. Hello Helen. |
| 0:30.0 | Hello Helen. |
| 0:31.0 | Hello. Becca Bunce of the Disabled Women's Collective, Sisters of Frida and co-director of the I see |
| 0:36.4 | change campaign. |
| 0:37.4 | Hi there? |
| 0:38.4 | Hi there. |
| 0:39.4 | And journalist Bridget Minamore. |
| 0:40.4 | Welcome Bridget. |
| 0:41.4 | Hello. |
| 0:42.4 | All right then. The image of French police making a Muslim woman remove her clothing on a beach in Nice has become one of the most iconic images of 2016, I think. So let's start with what we wear and Shalina how did you feel when you saw that |
| 0:55.7 | photograph my jaw literally fell to the floor I can't imagine what it's like to sit |
| 1:01.0 | minding your own business and then and then have four policemen turn up and |
| 1:05.1 | tell you to take your clothes off. |
| 1:08.0 | That to me was a shocking moment. |
| 1:09.9 | I think there was an opportunity for all women to look at that and just recollect how far the |
| 1:15.8 | women's rights movements have come in the last 100 or 150 years. |
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