REPEAT: Sex* and the city (*gender)

Published: Nov. 2, 2018, 1:30 p.m.

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This is a repeat \\u2013 sorry gang, I\\u2019ve been horrendously busy.

But, there are quite a lot of episodes of this thing now. And as the audience has grown, that means a lot of you haven\\u2019t heard our early work. So, to plug the gap, here\\u2019s an example of it. What follows is the original blurb, from August 2016.

On this week\'s podcast, we\'re talking gender. Which of course is not actually the same as sex \\u2013 the former is social, the latter biological \\u2013 but until such time as HBO makes a hit sitcom called \\u201cGender and the City\\u201d, this is our title and we\'re sticking to it. Anyway. This week\'s guests: Caroline Criado-Perez is the writer, journalist and feminist campaigner, who wrote a fantastic feature for us on why cities need to take women into account when planning. She gives us a whistlestop tour of her findings, from playgrounds in Vienna to toilets in Mumbai. Lauren Elkin is the author of "Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London", recently serialised on BBC Radio 4. She tells Stephanie about the origins of the book, and why walking can be a radical act. Sarah Coughlan and Marissa Santikarn are two-thirds of the Berlinials podcast. They tell us about the joys and hassles of ex-pat Berlin. Lastly, Stephanie and I discuss how her experiences of London differ from mine (most notably: I get cat-called surprisingly rarely). And we talk about how cities could be made more welcoming for women. Skylines is the podcast from CityMetric, the New Statesman cities site. It\'s presented by Jonn Elledge and Stephanie Boland, and is a Roifield Brown production.



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