Mag Hags

Mag Hags

Transcript: Marie Claire, October 1990

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Ella Glover
Feb 06, 2026
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The Mag Hags are back and feeling very sophisticated, beause this week we’re diving into an issue of Marie Claire, the magazine that refuses to patronise its readers. We take a very straight look at an affair, read an account of the Marchioness Disaster and get a taste of what Germaine Greer thought, twenty years on from the Female Eunuch.

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