Natasha Walter ties climate crisis to global struggles for justice in new feminist essay
In a review of Feminism for a World on Fire, The Guardian says Natasha Walter’s latest book pushes back against individualistic “aspiration feminism” and reframes feminism as part of wider battles for justice in a warming, unequal world.
Natasha Walter’s new book, Feminism for a World on Fire, is being presented as both a feminist argument and a warning about the politics of the present. In The Guardian Books’ review, the writer and activist is described as linking the climate crisis to struggles for justice around the world, while offering a version of feminism that rejects easy slogans and heroic self-invention.
The review says the book arrives at a moment when it has become harder to change minds, question one’s own assumptions or find common ground with political opponents. Against that backdrop, Walter’s project is framed as unusually energising: a work that tries to reconnect feminist thinking with collective action rather than individual advancement.
The Guardian notes that this is a different mood from Walter’s debut, The New Feminism, published in 1998. That earlier book is remembered there as ebullient and even willing to hail Margaret Thatcher as a trailblazer. In the new work, by contrast, Walter is said to be much fiercer and bleaker in her assessment of the political culture around her.