Natasha Walter

Type: Person

Name: Natasha Walter

First reported May 12 2013 - Updated May 12 2013 - 1 reports

Why has Mumsnet developed such an awkward reputation?

Powerful enough to influence Westminster. Useful enough to pull in more than four million users. Yet spiteful enough to attract defamation cases. What's the deal with Mumsnet?Nick DuerdenNick DuerdenYour friend's email addressYour email addressNote: We ... [Published The Independent - May 12 2013]

Entities: Roberts, Amanda Holden, Feminism, Natasha Walter

First reported Apr 18 2013 - Updated Apr 18 2013 - 1 reports

Column: Margaret Thatcher, a feminist icon? She certainly wouldn’t have called herself one

BIOEPIC, THE IRON Lady, depicts the late Margaret Thatcher as a feminist icon. But was she? Natasha Walter, co-founder of Women for Refugee Women and author of Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism and the New Feminism, writes that Thatcher is a figure that ... [Published TheJournal.ie - Apr 18 2013]

Entities: Margaret Thatcher, Feminism, Natasha Walter, Ireland, Sexism

First reported Apr 16 2013 - Updated Apr 17 2013 - 2 reports

Women's Prize for Fiction shortlist announced

Hilary Mantel may have made it into the final shortlist for the Women's Prize for Fiction, but she's got some tough competition on her hands.Previously sponsored by Orange, the Women's Fiction Prize is now financed by a wealth of names including Cherie ... [Published Red Online - Apr 16 2013]

Entities: Miranda Richardson, Hilary Mantel, Razia Iqbal, Natasha Walter, Jojo Moyes

First reported Apr 13 2013 - Updated Apr 13 2013 - 1 reports

Hugo Chávez Frías

Selma James/Nina López: Thatcherism Infects All Politics

Another head of government died recently who, like Thatcher, was called divisive. But unlike Thatcher, president Hugo Chávez of Venezuela, the "president of the poor", fought for a caring economy and against the rule of the market. The "crime" he was ... [Published ZNet - Apr 13 2013]

Entities: Selma James, Feminism, Racism, Hugo Chávez Frías

First reported Apr 13 2013 - Updated Apr 13 2013 - 1 reports

Protest in an age of optimism: the 1960s activists who spilled nuclear secrets | Natasha Walter

My parents were Spies for Peace. Today's protesters have far stricter surveillance to overcome but civil disobedience lives onFifty years ago Britain had just emerged from the coldest winter of the 20th century when some protesters emerged to stoke the ... [Published Guardian.co.uk - Apr 13 2013]

Entities: Natasha Walter, protest, Nicolas Walter, Nuclear

First reported Apr 10 2013 - Updated Apr 10 2013 - 1 reports

Margaret Thatcher

Thatcherism hasn't failed: it has infected all our politics | Selma James and Nina López

In Venezuela, Hugo Chávez's legacy on poverty is likely to get his chosen successor elected. We can't so easily vote out Margaret Thatcher's war on welfareAnother head of government died recently who, like Thatcher, was called divisive. But unlike Thatcher, ... [Published Guardian.co.uk - Apr 10 2013]

Entities: Margaret Thatcher, Selma James, Hugo Chávez Frías

First reported Apr 09 2013 - Updated Apr 09 2013 - 1 reports

Life was made worse for women under Thatcher, argues Sheila McGregor

Much had been written about Margaret Thatcher’s legacy for women before she died this week.Labour’s Oona King said, “I don’t care if Thatcher was the devil, it meant so much to me when I was growing up that two women—she and the Queen—were running the ... [Published Socialist Worker - Apr 09 2013]

Entities: Margaret Thatcher, Natasha Walter, Feminism, Oona King

First reported Jan 13 2013 - Updated Jan 13 2013 - 1 reports

It's time to concentrate our anger on a culture that turns men into rapists | Natasha Walter

Last week's sexual violence figures prove that young men need to be taught how to engage with women Never has there been such attention focused on rape and sexual violence. Over the past year, mainstream and social media have been riveted by one case ... [Published Comment is free | guardian.co.uk - Jan 13 2013]

Entities: Abuse, Rape, Natasha Walter

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Lift up your voices: The century-long battle fo... [Published New Statesman - May 15 2013]
Why has Mumsnet developed such an awkward reput... [Published The Independent - May 12 2013]
Column: Margaret Thatcher, a feminist icon? She... [Published TheJournal.ie - Apr 18 2013]
Women's Prize for Fiction shortlist announced [Published Red Online - Apr 16 2013]
Women's Prize For Fiction: 2013 Shortlist Annou... [Published Marie Claire UK - Apr 16 2013]
Selma James/Nina López: Thatcherism Infects All... [Published ZNet - Apr 13 2013]
Protest in an age of optimism: the 1960s activi... [Published Guardian.co.uk - Apr 13 2013]
Thatcherism hasn't failed: it has infected all ... [Published Guardian.co.uk - Apr 10 2013]
Life was made worse for women under Thatcher, a... [Published Socialist Worker - Apr 09 2013]
Was Margaret Thatcher Leaning In? [Published Think Progress - Apr 09 2013]
Britain's Thatcher An Unlikely Icon For America... [Published KCLU - Apr 08 2013]
Feminism ISN'T a dirty word. The girls I've met... [Published This Is Money - Jan 31 2013]
It's time to concentrate our anger on a culture... [Published Comment is free \| guardian.co.uk - Jan 13 2013]