Living Dolls
Author(s): Natasha Walter
I once believed that we only had to put in place the conditions for equality for the remnants of old-fashioned sexism in our culture to wither away. I am ready to admit that I was wrong.' Empowerment, liberation, choice. Once the watchwords of feminism, these terms have now been co-opted by a society that sells women an airbrushed, highly sexualised and increasingly narrow vision of femininity. Drawing on a wealth of research and personal interviews, LIVING DOLLS is a straight-talking, passionate and important book that makes us look afresh at women and girls, at sexism and femininity - today.
General Information
- :
- : Little, Brown Book Group Limited
- : Virago Press Ltd
- : 0.454
- : 01 May 2011
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 July 2011
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Natasha Walter
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : English
- : 288
More About The Product
* A controversial and much needed look at our highly sexualised culture, available now in paperback - 'A must-read' Viv Groskop, Guardian
Long-listed for Orwell Prize 2011.
'If anyone doubts the need to protect girls from the toxic, hyper-sexualised, disempowering environment they're now growing up in, they should read LIVING DOLLS' Maggie Hamilton, author of WHAT'S HAPPENING TO OUR GIRLS? ** 'In LIVING DOLLS, Walter makes a compelling case that we need feminism more than ever...this book makes a disturbing, passionate and compelling case for revisiting our notions of equality...Everyone who cares anything about the kind of society we are currently creating should read this book' Sunday Business Post ** 'Walter does a brilliant job of demolishing their (scientists') arguments' Mail on Sunday, Susie Orbach ** 'Required reading for everyone who cares about our humanity, and that means all of us' Katherine Sheridan, Irish Times ** 'Coolly devastating precision ... Living Dolls is a call to arms ... Walter provides a crystal-clear enunciation of the hypocrisy, shallowness and misogyny of our age' Bidisha, New Statesman,
Natasha Walter is author of THE NEW FEMINISM. She is a regular contributor to the national papers and BBC Radio.