Weekend Woman's Hour - Feeding Your Baby, Skin from Skunk Anansie, Body Hair Heirachy
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2019
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Woman’s Hour joined forces with BBC Radio Sheffield for a series of programmes looking at how women are feeding their babies and how it makes them feel. Jane talks to their Weekend Breakfast presenter Kat Cowan who’s recently returned to work after maternity leave, following the birth of her son Cooper. Plus, we hear from other mums around the country, about what they went through whether they breast, bottle or mixed fed their babies.
Skunk Anansie have brought out a new album 25LIVE@25 - a compilation of live recordings from the last 25 years. Lead singer, Skin talks to Jenni and sings live in the Woman's Hour studio.
Januhairy is a month-long campaign urging women to embrace their body-hair - we ask if there's a hierarchy when it comes to women and body hair. Jenni talks to Karín Lesnik-Oberstein, Professor in the Department of English Literature at the University of Reading, and the editor of new book called The Last Taboo – Women and Body Hair and freelance journalist Chitra Ramaswamy.
Under the 'guardianship' system in Saudi Arabia women can be tracked and monitored via a large government database and an app called Absher. We look at the impact that can have on those wanting to escape domesic abuse.
Presented by Jenni Murray Produced by Sophie Powling Edited by Jane Thurlow
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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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| 0:36.0 | BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts. |
| 0:41.0 | Good afternoon, a significant part of this week on Women's Out was devoted to feeding your baby and |
| 0:48.1 | what impact your decision to breast, bottle or mixed feed has on you and your relationship with your infant. |
| 0:57.2 | And as we passed the end of the month, we saw the end of the January Project. Why is a woman's body hair still such a |
| 1:05.7 | controversial subject? When you're sitting on your own in your room looking at your |
| 1:10.9 | extremely hairy legs, it's very hard to then go, do you know what I'm |
| 1:14.8 | going to put on a mini skirt and I'm going to go out and I'm just going to throw caution |
| 1:18.8 | to the wind. It does actually require bravery to do that, which I mean is ridiculous. |
| 1:24.4 | The young women who would like to free themselves from the strictures of life in Saudi Arabia |
| 1:30.8 | and the technology that's giving more power to the male guardians who can control a |
| 1:35.7 | woman's every move. And 25 years of the band Skunk and Ancy, I'll be talking to their lead singer's skin who recalls the day they were banned |
| 1:46.2 | from a venue in America accused of being Nazis. |
| 1:50.3 | So we go straight into a radio station at 9 in the morning and it's basically like, oh, we heard that you |
| 1:56.9 | are, you know, we heard the parents called Skunkinazzi, which it isn't, and you have a song called Little Baby Swostica, which we do. |
| 2:05.0 | You know what, it's like pre-social media, you know, that nobody bothered to look at the album cover. |
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