Natasha Walter



Profile:


Full name: Natasha Walter

Area of interest: Women's issues

Journals: The Guardian

Email: [mailto:natasha.walter@guardian.co.uk natasha.walter@guardian.co.uk]

Website: Guardian.co / Natasha Walter

Blog: Comment is free...

Agent: AP Watt

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Biography:
Education: St John's College, Cambridge; Harvard: English

Career: Vogue; The Independent: columnist Current position/role: The Guardian: columns, reviews and features writer


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Other roles:

Other activities: coordinator of Women for Refugee Women, which aims to raise awareness of the injustices faced by women asylum seekers in the UK

Disclosures:

Viewpoints/Insight: Catherine Redfern: interview with Natasha Walter at The 'F' Word, January 2002

TV/Radio: Has appeared regularly on Radio 4's Front Row and BBC2's Newsnight

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Other: Daughter of secularist writer Nicolas Walter, granddaughter of neurophysiologist William Grey Walter



Books & Debate:

 * The new feminism (1998) OCLC 38370715
 * On the move: feminism for a new generation (1999) OCLC 43468151

Forthcoming work: Living Dolls  OCLC 295899644, January 2010. An analysis of revamped sexism and the highly sexualised nature of our culture. Read the synopsis, and a review by Camilla Long in The Sunday Times here

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The Guardian:
no recent activity

Column remit: Women's issues

Section: Comment

Role: Columnist

Pen-name:

Email: [mailto:natasha.walter@guardian.co.uk natasha.walter@guardian.co.uk]

Website: Guardian.co / Natasha Walter

Commissioning editor:

Day published: Varies

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Articles:

 * revival of sanctuary'' - This coalition would end child detention, but that's just one aspect of our chaotic and cruel asylum system - 18th May 2010
 * have gone missing, and new sexists are dusting off old theories'' - If we want more female faces in culture and politics, we must reject the notion that women are 'different creatures' - 28th April 2010
 * liberties are for everyone'' - Liberty and the state: Plans to extend pre-trial detention have sparked opposition, yet many are already locked up for months without charge - 10th December 2007
 * The liberties stripped from the weak today could be lost to us all tomorrow - Plans to extend pre-trial detention have sparked opposition - yet many are already locked up for months without charge - 10th December 2007
 * To see past Cinderella - Reality TV is pushing aside women's freedom to imagine that beauty isn't their only power - 30th November 2007
 * Flight from the knife - 'Esther' was 15 when she arrived in Britain, fleeing female circumcision. Today the law lords will decide whether this is sufficient reason for her to remain in the country - 18th October 2007
 * If we move fast, we can curb the film world's male bias - 26th September 2007
 * Shut up - or else - A year after Walter Wolfgang was thrown out for heckling at Labour's annual conference, many complain that security has become too heavy handed.But it has always been like this, says Natasha Walter, whose father was jailed for protesting at Harold Wilson's 1966 conference - 25th September 2007



Links:

 * Wikipedia biog.