• Living Dolls by Natasha Walter
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Living Dolls

The Return of Sexism
  • Author
    • Natasha Walter
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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.
  • Published: Mar 05 2015
  • 196 x 128mm
  • ISBN: 9781844087099
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Press Reviews

  • Maggie Hamilton, author of WHAT'S HAPPENING TO OUR GIRLS?
    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
  • Sunday Business Post
    ** '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 curre
  • Mail on Sunday, Susie Orbach
    ** 'Walter does a brilliant job of demolishing their (scientists') arguments
  • Katherine Sheridan, Irish Times
    ** 'Required reading for everyone who cares about our humanity, and that means all of us

  • Laura Bates

    Elle
    This book marked a real feminist awakening for me . . . it might make you rage, but in a good, important way