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Woman's Hour: Clothes sizing, Afghan women, What's driving men who define themselves as incels?

16/08/2021

Clothes sizing, Afghan women, What's driving men who define themselves as incels?

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Clothes sizing, Afghan women, What's driving men who define themselves as incels?

Clothes sizing, Afghan women, and what's driving men who define themselves as incels?

Clothes sizing, the future for women under the Taliban in Afghanistan, and what's driving men who define themselves as incels?

Many bigger-busted women find it difficult to find clothing tailored to their chest size. The last time a national size survey was conducted in the UK was back in 2001, so why don’t clothing manufacturers take our bra sizes into account? Edaein O’Connell is a 32H, and has written about her struggle to find well fitting clothes. Dr Kathryn Brownbridge is a Senior Lecturer in Fashion and Design at Manchester Metropolitan University.

City after city has fallen to the Taliban in Afghanistan including the capital Kabul.   Blame is being apportioned for who is responsible - the Americans, the weak former government in Afghanistan or our own foreign policy.  What seems certain is that women's lives will change dramatically. Lynne O'Donnell is a journalist who until yesterday was in Kabul.  Homira Rezai lived in Afghanistan until 2006,  aged 13 she moved to Dudley in the West Midlands . Pashtana Durani runs an education charity in Kabul.

As the country reels from and mourns the loss of life after the Plymouth shooting last week, what is really driving men who define themselves as incels?  Why do they claim to hate women as much as they do?  Lily O'Farrell is a feminist cartoonist who decided to discover more about these groups. Joan Smith is an author, journalist and the co-chair of the mayor of London’s Violence Against Women and Girls board.

Plus how do you feel about sweating?  We spend on antiperspirants and deodorants –  £54 billion a year – we put an awful lot of effort into pretending we DON'T sweat and certainly DON'T smell.  Science journalist Sarah Everts talks about the research in her new book, The Joy of Sweat: The strange Science of Perspiration.  



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Producer: Lucinda Montefiore

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