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Feminine Mystiques

Doon Mackichan

Allegra McIlroy

Aminatta Forna

Feminine Mystiques: Episode 2: What to Expect

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By Aminatta Forna. Surreal and funny story in which a woman rebels against expectations.

By Aminatta Forna: Exploring contemporary feminism through a young woman who wants to be invisible to the world. Read by Doon MacKichan.

By Aminatta Forna
Read by Doon MacKichan

Fifty years since the first publication of Betty Friedan's seminal feminist work The Feminine Mystique, three leading writers to celebrate her influence in new short stories exploring the contemporary feminist landscape.

Doon MacKichan reads Aminatta Forna's surreal and wryly funny contemporary story. A young woman rebels against the weight of expectation and the minute daily constraints of appropriate behaviour. A story with an unexpected and humourous twist.

Aminatta Forna is winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize and judge of the Man Booker International Prize. She is the author of Ancestor Stones and The Hired Man

Producer: Allegra McIlroy.

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Three short stories from leading writers exploring the contemporary feminist landscape

Fifty years since the publication of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique, three leading writers explore the contemporary feminist landscape in stories inspired by her work

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