
Sarah Ransome, Scars, Sequins
Woman's Hour
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Is It All Fine Now?
i wanted to explore my mother's case and jessie's case was that, a, this wasn't a case of teen aged mothers. The archotypal story of around illegitimate children in the 19 sixties and seventies is about young girls described as silly young girls whov got themselves pregnant. Bastard has been a term of abuse for many, many years, you know. Am so i do think that was a sort of endemic hypocrisy. And we should certainly know there are many, many women, and some men as well, whose lives now are still blighted by that feeling of shame and guilt and embarrassment.
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