Living dolls
Subtitle: the return of sexism
By: Natasha Walter
Edition: Pbk. ed.
Publisher: Virago
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9781844087099
Subjects: Sex differences; Sex role; Feminism; Sex
Description: "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. While the opportunities available to women may have expanded, the ambitions of many young girls are in reality limited by a culture that sees women's sexual allure as their only passport to success. At the same time we are encouraged to believe that the inequality we observe all around us is born of innate biological differences rather than social factors.  Drawing on a wealth of research and personal interviews, [the author] gives us...a book that makes us look afresh at women and girls, at sexism and femininity, today"--From publisher description.
Notes: Originally published: 2010.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Dolls; title: pt. 1. The new sexism; title: Babes; title: Pole-dancers and prostitutes; title: Girls; title: Lovers; title: Pornography; title: Choices; title: pt. 2. The new determinism; title: Princesses; title: Myths : Babies. Words. Maths. Hormones. Brains; title: Stereotypes; title: Changes.