Background
Her father was Nicolas Walter, an anarchist and secular humanist writer Her grandfather was William Grey Walter, a neuroscientist.
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Living Dolls
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Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism
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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.
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Natasha Walter
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Education
Harvard University; Street John"s College.
Career
She went on to write for many publications and to appear regularly on BBC2"s Newsnight Review and Radio 4"s Front Row. In 1999 she was a judge on the Booker Prize and in 2013 she was a judge on the Women"s Prize for Fiction (formerly the Orange Prize). lieutenant was directed by Juliet Stevenson and performed at the Young Vic in 2008 by Juliet Stevenson, Harriet Walter and others
Women for Refugee Women subsequently worked in partnership with other organisations to campaign for the end to the detention of children for immigration purposes in the United Kingdom, a policy which the government announced it would end in 2010.
Her book Living Dolls, also published by Virago, looks at the resurgence of sexism in contemporary culture. Walter says, "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."
In March 2015, Natasha will be the Humanitas Visiting Professor of Women"s Rights at Cambridge University.
Achievements
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After attending North London Collegiate School, she read English at Street John"s College, Cambridge, graduating with a double First, and then won a Frank Knox Fellowship to Harvard. Her first job was at Vogue magazine, and she subsequently became Deputy Literary Editor of The Independent and then a columnist for The Guardian. Walter is the founder and director of the charity Women for Refugee Women which campaigns for the rights of women who seek asylum.
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Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism
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Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism
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She is the author of Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism (2010, Virago) and The New Feminism (1998, Virago), and is the director of Women for Refugee Women. She is the author of The New Feminism, which was an influential feminist book published by Virago in 1998.
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