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Leila Slimani is the first Moroccan woman to win France\\u2019s most prestigious literary prize, the Prix Goncourt. From stories of poverty, exploitation and sexual addiction she now turns her attention to sexual politics within a deeply conservative culture. She tells Amol Rajan why she wanted to give voice to young Moroccan women suffocating under the strictures of a society which allowed them only two roles: virgin or wife.

The writer Olivia Fane questions whether liberal society is really that liberating. In \\u2018Why Sex Doesn\\u2019t Matter\\u2019 she argues that women have been sold the idea of sexual freedom, but that this has curtailed the way people think about love and desire.

The journalist Sally Howard asks why, after forty years of feminism, women still do the majority of the housework. While straight British women are found to put in 12 more days of household chores than their male partners, in the US young men are now twice as likely as their fathers to think a woman\\u2019s place is in the home.

But it\\u2019s not just women who are constrained by the roles society presents to them. As a new photographic exhibition into Masculinity opens at the Barbican, the academic Chris Haywood, believes it\\u2019s important to highlight the importance of visual representations of men. He asks whether men have become stuck between ideas of \\u2018toxic\\u2019 and \\u2018fragile\\u2019 masculinity.

Producer: Katy Hickman