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Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism Paperback – 12 July 2011

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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.'

Empowerment, liberation, choice. Once the watchwords of feminism, these terms have now been co-opted by a society that sells women an airbrushed, highly sexualised and increasingly narrow vision of femininity. Drawing on a wealth of research and personal interviews, LIVING DOLLS is a straight-talking, passionate and important book that makes us look afresh at women and girls, at sexism and femininity - today.
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    12 July 2011
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  6. Dimensions
    12.7 x 1.91 x 19.69 cm
  7. ISBN-10
    9781844087099
  8. ISBN-13
    978-1844087099
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If anyone doubts the need to protect girls from the toxic, hyper-sexualised, disempowering environment they're now growing up in, they should read LIVING DOLLS - Maggie Hamilton, author of WHAT'S HAPPENING TO OUR GIRLS?

** 'In LIVING DOLLS, Walter makes a compelling case that we need feminism more than ever...this book makes a disturbing, passionate and compelling case for revisiting our notions of equality...Everyone who cares anything about the kind of society we are curre - Sunday Business Post

** 'Walter does a brilliant job of demolishing their (scientists') arguments - Mail on Sunday, Susie Orbach

** 'Required reading for everyone who cares about our humanity, and that means all of us - Katherine Sheridan, Irish Times

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If anyone doubts the need to protect girls from the toxic, hyper-sexualised, disempowering environment they're now growing up in, they should read LIVING DOLLS - Maggie Hamilton, author of WHAT'S HAPPENING TO OUR GIRLS?

** 'In LIVING DOLLS, Walter makes a compelling case that we need feminism more than ever...this book makes a disturbing, passionate and compelling case for revisiting our notions of equality...Everyone who cares anything about the kind of society we are curre - Sunday Business Post

** 'Walter does a brilliant job of demolishing their (scientists') arguments - Mail on Sunday, Susie Orbach

** 'Required reading for everyone who cares about our humanity, and that means all of us - Katherine Sheridan, Irish Times

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1844087093
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Virago; 1st edition (12 July 2011)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 304 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781844087099
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1844087099
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 18 years and up
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.7 x 1.91 x 19.69 cm
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Kelsi
4.0 out of 5 stars Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism
Reviewed in Canada on 8 July 2014
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What made me like *Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism* was that Natasha Walter included a nice balance of her observations, other people's opinions on topics such as glamour modeling, stripping, and pornography, as well as scientific studies and reasoning behind supposed gender differences.

I liked the fact that she exposed a lot of popular and well known studies about physiological differences between men and women's brains as lacking in evidence and proper scientific methods.
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Shama Switch
5.0 out of 5 stars This is the best woman studies book I have read in a decade
Reviewed in the United States on 28 November 2011
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And I have read a LOT. I have a personal library of books on this subject, but this author writes about the subject so elegantly I can't put it down. Ten years ago I was a studying sociology/women studies/minority groups etc and I felt that in America we are able to understand sexism better than other "western" countries. I have to say I was wrong after reading this book. The author takes you in to the seedy world of Britian and the new sexism that is pervasive and harming young girls. She fact checks so called "scientists" who believe everything with gender is biological and not sociological. I know that it is sociological, because I spent four years studying the subject in school and have a degree. I would hate to think that all my efforts were a waste, because the media would like us to think everything comes down to biology and social impact has nothing to do with anything. The author understands how insulting this premise is to her and to society in general. The media loves the "biology" theory so they can perpetuate their myths with why girls are one way and boys another. Also in the book the author speaks about how everything is called "feminist" to excuse bad behavior from women and men. These ideas are very complex, but the book simplifies it and the results are shocking. I wasn't going to get this book at first, because it wasn't about American women. I am so glad I did. If you care about women you should read this book. Forget about everything else you want to read and read this first.
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AlexHa
5.0 out of 5 stars erschreckend wahr
Reviewed in Germany on 17 August 2012
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Bevor ich das Buch gelesen habe, dachte ich, nur ich wäre so sensibel und kritisch, wie heute mit den Errungenschaften der Emanzipation umgegangen wird. Vermeintliche Freiheiten sind keine Freiheiten, sondern "dienen" tatsächlich nur zur Belustigung, Sexualisierung der Frau und Reduzierung auf Ihr Äußeres. Noch schlimmer: viele, viele Frauen und Mädchen merken es nicht einmal. Gutes Buch, das aufrüttelt und das man seiner Tochter, Nichte, Enkelin etc. zum 12. Geburtstag schenken sollte.
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Damaskcat
5.0 out of 5 stars Is this empowerment?
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 February 2010
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Feminism and the sexual revolution was intended to give women choices about their lives so that they didn't have to be barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen. Natasha Walter's controversial book shows women have instead been placed in a straightjacket which dictates how they look, how they behave and what ambitions they have. The first half of the book is taken up with extracts from interviews she had with teenagers, sex workers, people at the top of the glamour magazine and film industry and with a user of pornography. Was female empowerment meant to be about behaving like a man - and the worst type of man at that?

To me the thoughts of the teenagers she talks to make tragic reading. They are only interested in how many men they can sleep with and what they look like. The contrast between them and the few girls she talks to who don't want to win fame and fortune by posing nude in a lads' magazine is stark. Walter also recounts conversations with young women who earned money while at university as escorts and prostitutes. Some see nothing wrong with it and regard it as a simple and fun way to earn enough money to support themselves. Others had clearly thought deeply about the work and felt it was not the best way to deal with a financial crisis. Is becoming a prostitute or a pole dancer really how female empowerment looks today?

The second half of the book deals with the trend in the media to exaggerate sex differences and to point to studies showing men and women have different capabilities because of their gender. As Walter points out there are many studies which show there is very little difference in the capabilities of men and women but these are rarely reported. General interest books which highlight and exaggerate gender differences sell in their thousands but books citing scientific evidence that there is little difference usually sink without trace. Are the media bent on emphasising gender differences and promoting conventional stereotypes? This book shows they are.

`Living Dolls' is well written and the author's own reaction to the way our culture is changing for the worse as she sees it is clearly evident. This however does not prevent her from quoting research which is both for and against the theory that people are individuals and should not be stereotyped. I found it engrossing reading, with many references to follow up for more information. There is an index and comprehensive notes to each chapter - though no separate bibliography. There is also a list of women's organisations which are continuing the fight for equality.

Anyone who thinks our capabilities are biologically determined at birth needs to read this book as it shows clearly how gender stereotypes are promoted in a subtle and insidious way in everything we see, hear and read from an early age. If you don't want to be pigeon holed as a glamour model with a large chest or as a 1950s housewife in a Cath Kidston apron baking cupcakes then this is the book for you.
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Ioana
4.0 out of 5 stars Dolls' View
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The book focuses on the social trends aiming to back up the idea that feminity is something inate.
The author manages to put in question the determinist point of view. But that is all she does: it falsifies the determinist hypothesis.
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