Natasha Walter

Profile: Full name: Natasha Walter Area of interest: Women's issues Journals/Organisation: The Guardian Email: natasha.walter@guardian.co.uk Personal website: http://natashawalter.com Website: http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/natashawalter Blog: Representation: http://natashawalter.com/contact.html Networks:

Biography: About: http://natashawalter.com/about.html Education: St John's College, Cambridge; Harvard: English Career: Vogue magazine; reviewer, columnist and feature writer at the Independent, the Observer and the Guardian; regular broadcaster particularly on BBC2's Newsnight Review and BBC Radio 4's Front Row; founded the charity Women for Refugee Women Current position/role: The Guardian: columns, reviews and features writer also writes/has written for: Other roles/Main role: Other activities: coordinator of Women for Refugee Women, which aims to raise awareness of the injustices faced by women asylum seekers in the UK Disclosures: Viewpoints/Insight: Catherine Redfern: interview with Natasha Walter at The 'F' Word, January 2002 Natasha Walter: 'I believed sexism in our culture would wither away. I was entirely wrong' - The author of The New Feminism talks about challenging the resurgence of sexism in her new book, Living Dolls – and not being an angry feminist - 25th January 2010 Broadcast media: Has appeared regularly on Radio 4's Front Row and BBC2's Newsnight Living Dolls - Natasha Walter on the return of sexism - Audio - BBC Radio 4, 2010 Video: Controversy/Criticism: Awards/Honours: Scoops: Other: Daughter of secularist writer Nicolas Walter, granddaughter of neurophysiologist William Grey Walter

Books & Debate: http://natashawalter.com/books.html The new feminism (1998) OCLC 38370715 On the move: feminism for a new generation (1999) OCLC 43468151 Latest work: Living Dolls OCLC 295899644, January 2010. An analysis of revamped sexism and the highly sexualised nature of our culture. Read the synopsis, and a review by Camilla Long in The Sunday Times here Speaking/Appearances: Campaigning Debate:

The Guardian: Column name: Remit/Info: Women's issues Section: Comment Role: Columnist Pen-name: Email: natasha.walter@guardian.co.uk Personal website: Website: Guardian.co / Natasha Walter Commissioning editor: Day published: Varies Regularity: Column format: Average length:

Articles: Britain is still no refuge for refugees - Despite Nick Clegg's promises, child detention never quite went away and is now making a comeback - 27th July 2011 Forty years of women's lib - Scrap the UN, shut Yarl's Wood, exploit the internet – 40 years after the first Women's Liberation march, six feminists reflect on battles won and discuss what still needs to change - 11th March 2011 International Women's Day reminds us why feminism must not lose its bite - The feminist movement is constantly changing, but it is an unfinished revolution. There is a long way yet to go - 8th March 2011 Guardian Focus podcast: International Women's Day - On the centenary of International Women's Day, we explore why feminism still matters in 2011 and debate the Guardian's list of 100 inspirational women - 8th March 2011 Speaking out for change - Destitute and facing deportation, asylum seeker Lydia Besong found the strength to write a play about her experience - 26th November 2010 Why is there so much movie violence against women? - The rising tide of sadistic movie violence against women has reached a climax with The Killer Inside Me – but it's far from the only guilty party - 3rd June 2010 The revival of sanctuary - This coalition would end child detention, but that's just one aspect of our chaotic and cruel asylum system - 18th May 2010 Women have gone missing, and new sexists are dusting off old theories - If we want more female faces in culture and politics, we must reject the notion that women are 'different creatures' - 28th April 2010 Civil liberties are for everyone - Liberty and the state: Plans to extend pre-trial detention have sparked opposition, yet many are already locked up for months without charge - 10th December 2007 The liberties stripped from the weak today could be lost to us all tomorrow - Plans to extend pre-trial detention have sparked opposition - yet many are already locked up for months without charge - 10th December 2007 To see past Cinderella - Reality TV is pushing aside women's freedom to imagine that beauty isn't their only power - 30th November 2007 Flight from the knife - 'Esther' was 15 when she arrived in Britain, fleeing female circumcision. Today the law lords will decide whether this is sufficient reason for her to remain in the country - 18th October 2007 If we move fast, we can curb the film world's male bias - 26th September 2007 Shut up - or else - A year after Walter Wolfgang was thrown out for heckling at Labour's annual conference, many complain that security has become too heavy handed.But it has always been like this, says Natasha Walter, whose father was jailed for protesting at Harold Wilson's 1966 conference - 25th September 2007

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