âHeat, floods and droughts make men more violent to womenâ: Natasha Walter on eco-feminism in a world on fire
The author has become acutely aware of how the climate crisis is affecting women â and, in her new book, she argues that itâs time for mainstream western feminists to join the dots Natasha Walter is halfway through explaining how she came to be politically radicalised when a young woman approaches the cafe table. We two middle-aged women look like âthe most trustworthy people here,â she says, so could we watch her baby while she grabs a coffee? Like the solid citizen she is, Walter doesnât take her eyes off the pushchair parked by the cafe steps for the next five minutes, though all we can see of the occupant is a tiny swinging foot. Sorry, where were we? Ah yes, the groundbreaking feminist writer who famously argued in her 1998 book The New Feminism that Margaret Thatcher had broken down barriers for women was explaining why she no longer really believes itâs possible to be rightwing and a feminist, as Theresa May or Amber Rudd insist they are. âI canât support just any woman getting into power, because I think a system that leaves too many women in the shadows â that condemns too many women to poverty or worse â is not a feminist system, and I donât think yo
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