Full name: Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism

Author: Natasha Walter Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Feminism, Non Fiction, Politics Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781844084845 9781844087099 1844084841

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. While the opportunities available to women may have expanded, the ambitions of many young girls are in reality limited by a culture that sees women's sexual allure as their only passport to success. At the same time we are encouraged to believe that the inequality we observe all around us is born of innate biological differences rather than social factors. Drawing on a wealth of research and personal interviews, Natasha Walter, author of the groundbreaking THE NEW FEMINISM and one of Britain's most incisive cultural commentators, gives us a straight-talking, passionate and important book that makes us look afresh at women and girls, at sexism and femininity, today. Similar books: The Whole Woman by Germaine Greer Everyday Sexism by Laura Bates Enlightened Sexism by Susan J. Douglas Cunt by Inga Muscio Fire with Fire by Naomi Wolf Meat Market by Laurie Penny He's a Stud, She's a Slut, and 49 Other Double Standards Every Woman Should Know by Jessica Valenti The War Against Women by Marilyn French Full Frontal Feminism by Jessica Valenti Sisterhood, Interrupted by Deborah Siegel The Morning After by Katie Roiphe Sex and Destiny by Germaine Greer The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer Female Chauvinist Pigs by Ariel Levy Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics by Bell Hooks Half the Sky by Nicholas D. Kristof Asking for It by Kate Harding Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins Where We Stand by Bell Hooks Right-wing Women by Andrea Dworkin