Feminism for a World on Fire by Natasha Walter audiobook review – an urgent call for collective action

The writer and activist finds galvanising energy in grassroots initiatives in the face of inequality and the climate crisis

‘Throughout the world confidence in progress has shattered,” notes Natasha Walter. “The certainty – even the hope – that human rights equality might be within everyone’s reach has disintegrated … Everywhere in the world, from west to east, south to north, women are struggling to win and to protect their rights, and to live in safety. They keep coming up against misogynistic violence that never disappears.”

In Feminism for a World on Fire, Walter, an activist and academic, paints a dire picture of 21st-century womanhood. Where the last century saw women making strides towards equality, today much of that progress has been halted or gone into reverse.