Natasha Walter
Natasha Walter (born January 20, 1967 ) is a British feminist and publicist .
Life
After attending North London Collegiate School , Walter taught English at St John's College at Cambridge University and then received a Frank-Knox Research Fellowship to Harvard . Her first job was at Vogue magazine , then she worked in the literary department of The Independent and was a columnist for The Guardian . She currently writes for many print media including The New Statesman , Vogue , The Observer, and appears regularly on TV on BBC 2 on Newsnight Review and Front Row on BBC Radio 4 . She is the founder and chair of the Women for Refugee Women charity and the author of the drama Motherland , which premiered at the Young Vic in 2008 , by Juliet Stevenson , Harriet Walter, and others.
She is the author of The New Feminism , which was published in English by Virago Verlag in 1998, and of Living Dolls , also published by Virago in 2010. Living Dolls was also published in a German version by Krüger Verlag in 2011. In this book Walter deals with the return of sexism in today's culture. To this end, she interviewed girls and women in various milieus and researched them in toy shops and at glamor model castings. Natasha Walter says: “I once believed that we just had to create the conditions for equality to make the remnants of old sexism disappear. I am ready to admit that I was wrong. "
family
Walter lives in London with her partner and their two children. Her father was Nicolas Walter , an anarchist and secular humanist author, her grandfather the neuroscientist William Gray Walter , her great-grandfather the journalist Karl Walter .
Works
- 1998: The New Feminism . Virago, ISBN 978-1-86049-636-3
- 1999: On the Move: Feminism for a New Generation . Virago, ISBN 978-1-86049-818-3
- 2010: Living Dolls: Why young women today would rather be beautiful than smart . Krüger, Frankfurt 2011, ISBN 978-3-81052-377-8
Web links
- Interview in the Tagesspiegel
- Interview in the Swiss women's magazine annabelle
- Review of Living Dolls in the FAZ
- Reviews of Living Dolls on perlentaucher.de
- Interview with Walter on The F-Word website
- Walter's contribution to the Guardian on the situation of women in Saudi Arabia
- Contribution to Prospect magazine on biology and gender
Sources, footnotes
- ↑ 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, in: The Guardian , January 25, 2010. [1]
- ↑ http://www.refugeewomen.com/
- ↑ Charlotte Raven: That's why the Lady is a Tramp, SZ-Magazin 22/2010 [2] , perlentaucher.de [3]
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Walter, Natasha |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British publicist and suffragette |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th January 1967 |