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Female Chauvinist Pigs
Ariel Levy
Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture
Free Press
August 2005
240 pages
ISBN: 0743249895
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction | Self-Help
Meet the Female Chauvinist Pig--the new brand of "empowered
woman" who wears the Playboy bunny as a talisman, bares all
for Girls Gone Wild, pursues casual sex as if it were
a sport, and embraces "raunch culture" wherever she finds
it. If male chauvinist pigs of years past thought of women
as pieces of meat, Female Chauvinist Pigs of today are doing
them one better, making sex objects of other women--and of
themselves. They think they're being brave, they think
they're being funny, but in Female Chauvinist Pigs, New
York magazine writer Ariel Levy asks if the joke is on
them. In her quest to uncover why this is happening,
Levy interviews college women who flash for the cameras on
spring break and teens raised on Paris Hilton and breast
implants. She examines a culture in which every music video
seems to feature a stripper on a pole, the memoirs of porn
stars are climbing the best-seller lists, Olympic athletes
parade their Brazilian bikini waxes in the pages of
Playboy, and thongs are marketed to prepubescent
girls. Levy meets the high-powered women who create raunch
culture--the new oinking women warriors of the corporate and
entertainment worlds who eagerly defend their efforts to be
"one of the guys." And she traces the history of this trend
back to conflicts between the women's movement and the
sexual revolution long left unresolved. In the
tradition of Susan Faludi's Backlash and Naomi Wolf's
The Beauty Myth, Levy pulls apart the myth of the
Female Chauvinist Pig and argues that what has come
to pass for liberating rebellion is actually a kind of
limiting conformity. Irresistibly witty and wickedly
intelligent, Female Chauvinist Pigs makes the case
that the rise of raunch does not represent how far women
have come, it only proves how far they have left to go.
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