* A controversial and much needed look at our highly sexualised culture, available now in paperback - 'A must-read' Viv Groskop, Guardian

Long-listed for Orwell Prize 2011.

'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 currently creating should read this book' 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 ** 'Coolly devastating precision ... Living Dolls is a call to arms ... Walter provides a crystal-clear enunciation of the hypocrisy, shallowness and misogyny of our age' Bidisha, New Statesman,

Natasha Walter is author of THE NEW FEMINISM. She is a regular contributor to the national papers and BBC Radio.