Feminism for a World on Fire by Natasha Walter review – hope amid the hopelessness

A writer and activist takes stock of women’s rights in these changing, troubled times It has become increasingly difficult to change our minds, to question our own views or to find common ground with people we disagree with, all of which makes Natasha Walter’s new book both refreshing and exhilarating. In her ebullient 1998 debut The New Feminism, Walter hailed Margaret Thatcher as a trailblazer. In this fiercer, bleaker work, she rips into the “glossy language of aspiration feminism”, “the ...

By Samantha Ellis