Natasha Walter

Natasha Walter (born 20 January 1967) is a highly respected British feminist writer and broadcaster, educated at St John's College, Cambridge and Harvard. Her father was the anarchist Nicolas Walter and her grandfather was the neuroscientist William Grey Walter. She writes for many publications, including The Independent and The Observer and appeared regularly on BBC 2's Newsnight Review. She currently writes for The Guardian and is the founder and director of the charity Women for Refugee Women [1]. She attended North London Collegiate School in Canons Park, Edgware, Greater London, an independent girls' school founded by Frances Mary Buss in 1850.

She is the author of the The New Feminism, published by Virago in 1998, and her new book Living Doll will be out in 2009. This book aims to look at the revamped sexism and highly sexualised nature of our culture.

Natasha says, 'I wanted women to work on the political, economic and social inequalities rather than obsess about how a feminist should dress - but I didn't mean we should all join a pole-dancing class… I want to look at the claustrophobic culture that teaches young women that their sexual attractiveness is all that is important. I want to look again at biological determinism and the perceived clash of civilisations that prevents women from working together across cultures and countries.'

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 Doll (2009) ISBN 978 1 84408 484 5

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