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Body acceptance, feminism, sex positivity… these are not topics you would expect to be discussed by an economist. Most people would be even more surprised to see a university professor with a Phd discussing these topics while nude. Yet that is exactly what Dr. Victoria Bateman has been doing. In this episode we discuss her experiences protesting the patriarchal establishment as well as her two books, “Naked Feminism” and “The Sex Factor”.

Links to useful information and items mentioned in this episode:

• Victoria Bateman website
• Victoria Bateman Wikipedia page
• Protesting Brexit
• The Sex Factor: How Women Made the West Rich
• Naked Feminism: Breaking the Cult of Female Modesty
• Artist Hannah Wilk
• 1979 Revolution Iranian women forced to wear veils
  • BBC article
  • CBC article
• Afghanistan girls being pulled out of schools 2022 CBC Article
• Indonesia’s parliament passes law criminalizing sex outside marriage
• Pious Phalluses and Holy Vulvas: The religious Importance of Some Sexual Body-Part Badges in Late-Medieval Europe
• Liberty Leading the People
• Topfreedom in Canada
• The “Breasts” episode of the Naturist Living Show where Gwen Jacob recounts her legal fight for topfreedom.
• Planet Nude
• Naked Age Podcast
• Episodes of Naked Age featured on The Naturist Living Show

Photo: Dr. Victoria Bateman speaking at the Ways with Words Literary Festival in Dartington

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