Everyone, male or female, should read Natasha Walter's Living Dolls. Her exploration of the effect our highly sexualised culture has on young women is shocking and thought provoking. It tackles the view she held in her 1998 book The New Feminism that Feminists shouldn't worry so much about sexual objectification, Walter said; young women didn't want to be told what to wear and who to sleep with. She now says that she was "entirely wrong".
She explores how choices which seem empowering have a darker edge through interviews with women who working in industries such as glamour modelling and pole dancing as well as men involved, either by employing them or acting as consumers.
In the second part of the book, she goes onto to reveal how dubious research into innate gender differences is shaping our culture and even how children are raised.
It's important for women to read this book, but perhaps even more important for men.
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