Natasha Walter (born 20 January 1967) is a British Jewish [1]feminist writer and broadcaster. Her father was Nicolas Walter, an anarchist and secular humanist writer; her grandfather was William Grey Walter, a neuroscientist.
She read English at St John's College, Cambridge and then won a Frank Knox Fellowship to Harvard.Her first job was at Vogue magazine, she then became Deputy Literary Editor of The Independent and then a columnist for The Guardian. She currently writes for many publications, including The New Statesman, Vogue, The Observer and appears regularly on BBC 2's Newsnight Review and BBC Radio 4's Front Row. She is the founder and director of the charity Women for Refugee Women [1] and the author of the play Motherland which was performed at the Young Vic in 2008 by Juliet Stevenson, Harriet Walter and others.
She is the author of the The New Feminism, published by Virago in 1998, and Living Dolls, also published by Virago in 2010. This book looks at the resurgence of sexism in contemporary culture. Natasha 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."
Natasha Walter lives in London with her partner and their two children, Clara (b. 2001) and Arthur (b.2009).[2] "I have a great partner and the kind of work that leaves us both time to be with our daughter and to pay for excellent childcare when we can’t be."[3]
Works
- The New Feminism (1998) ISBN 978 1 86049 636 3
- On the Move: feminism for a new generation (1999) ISBN 978 1 86049 818 3
- Living Dolls (2009) ISBN 978 1 84408 484 5
References
External links
- 2002/01/interview_with_natasha_walter An interview with Walter on the website The F-Word
- [2] A feature by Walter in The Guardian on the situation facing Saudi women
- AuthKey=6ba2fcf21ac8a0b0e4ddf01c86ed4e90&issue=503 A feature from Prospect magazine on biology and the backlash
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- ↑ http://living.scotsman.com/books/Interview-Natasha-Walter-author-of.6048696.jp
- ↑ Kira Cochrane, "Natasha Walter: 'I believed sexism in our culture would wither away. I was entirely wrong'" The Guardian, Monday 25 January 2010. [3]
- ↑ Catherine Redfern, Interview with Natasha Walter, The F-word, 16 January 2002. [4]