Fans of Ariel Levy’s Female Chauvinist Pigs – the book that coined the term ‘raunch culture’ – will be fascinated by Living Dolls. Ten years ago, in The New Feminism, Natasha Walter declared that feminism should no longer concern itself with women’s personal lives: feminism had triumphed and we were well on our way to complete equality, she thought.

In this provocative yet deeply thoughtful and balanced book, she tells us why she now thinks she was wrong. She explains why what we trumpet as an expansion of ‘choice’ for women is actually the opposite – and talks to many young women who feel as constricted by the prevailing raunch culture as previous generations were by the emphasis on modesty and virginity.