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Are Western Women's Magazines Too Shallow?

Is the tone of magazines like Cosmopolitan appropriate for all audiences in the world?

Is the style of magazines like Cosmopolitan and Elle inappropriate for a new audience of women in the developing world?

Also on the programme: Ann Cryer, MP for Keithley, reads a week in her diary of her first week in the new New Labour government, and a North American teenager talks about some of the social pressures American girls face.
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29 minutes

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This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project