Having been written ten years ago, it is striking how little has changed, and the Equality Illusion still persists. It would be great to see an update, including how right wing politics has emerged over the last decade to the detriment of equality and how austerity policies have been unfairly skewed towards women.

I would already describe myself as a feminist, and this book is a nice introduction, or refresher. Although I'm not a fan of the nordic model, and think Amnesty have made several key points about how sex workers can still be persecuted by police, it is presented here in a much better way than I have seen it in other feminist works. I would have also liked to have seen a bit more of a discussion around how we support those working in the sex industry (and particularly strip clubs) support to move on to more secure and positive jobs - the threat of pushing these clubs underground is real, and women would be in a much more vulnerable place if that was the case. Overall however, really interesting and well written.