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Woman's Hour: Returning to your childhood bedroom at Christmas, Iranian dolls, Lilia Giugni

Returning to your childhood bedroom at Christmas, Iranian dolls, Lilia Giugni

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Returning to your childhood bedroom at Christmas, Iranian dolls, Lilia Giugni

Returning to your childhood bedroom at Christmas. Scottish Gender Recognition Reform Bill.

Over the festive period, many people will be returning to stay in the home they grew up in. But when is the right time to clear out a childhood bedroom after its occupants have left home? Should you turn it into a study, pottery studio, or holiday rental the moment the kids have stepped out the door? Or preserve it as a shrine filled with old A Level notes, soft toys, and 90s posters? 

The protests in Iran are now entering their fourth month with no sign of abating. They were sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old who died in custody after being detained by morality police. But Woman's Hour has been in touch with one group of women who are rebelling in a quieter way, with the revival of a simple but ancient tradition. The tradition of making handmade dolls to pass from generation to generation. It's therapeutic, but still proving to be a small but powerful act of defiance. Tanaz Assefi, an artist originally from Iran, is in touch with a woman inside the country who's been travelling around towns and villages collecting handmade dolls.  

How have women been affected by the digital revolution of the last 30 years?  Lilia Giugni will be joining Krupa Padhy to talk about her book "Threat: Why Digital Capitalism is Sexist and How to Resist". 

Plus the latest on the progress of the Scottish Gender Recognition Reform Bill. And one day after excluding women from university, we find out more about reports that the Taliban have banned girls from primary schools, effectively instituting a total ban on education for women and girls. 

Presenter Krupa Padhy
Producer Clare Walker.

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