in the news
But we do blame it on the bikini...
Dani Garavelli's piece in Scotland on Sunday last week goes a curious route via Mumsnet and moral panic but gets to the point in the last few paragraphs - what the sexualisation of increasingly younger girls will do to their self image and aspirations. Read the article here
Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism
Natasha Walters new book Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism was published on 4th Feb and it recieved a lot of publicity from the mainstream media.
The book has generated such interest in part because in her last book, The New Feminism, Natasha had stated that if feminism foucssed on the big policy issues such as the gender pay gap, political participation and representation etc.. the objectification of women would lessen in everyday culture. In this new book she says she was wrong.
Read Kira Cochranes Guardian interview with Natasha here
and the Times Online extract here
