LIVING DOLLS: THE RETURN of SEXISM by Natasha Walter
Published in 2010 by Virago Press. Natasha Walter is an English feminist who is looking at how modern culture treats women. She has two main points. I will reverse the order of their presentation in my review. Her second main point is the new belief in biological determinism, meaning men and women have areas that they are naturally better at - and that fact overrides everything. She notes that the scientific studies that this belief is based on have never really The author, Natasha Walter been scientifically proven, meaning that they were limited and not replicated on a regular basis. Some have never been replicated even once. The danger is that people just assume things like "girls aren't good at math" and "men can't take care of babies or children" and they become reality. I see it in the classroom all the time - parents tell their kid they struggled with a certain class and they understand if the kid struggles and the kid struggles. It's a sel