Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture 1st Edition

by Ariel Levy (Author)

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A classic work on gender culture exploring how the women’s movement has evolved to Girls Gone Wild in a new, self-imposed chauvinism. In the tradition of Susan Faludi’s Backlash and Naomi Wolf’s The Beauty Myth, New York Magazine writer Ariel Levy studies the effects of modern feminism on women today.

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, 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 bestseller 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.

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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"With Female Chauvinist Pigs, Ariel Levy becomes feminism's newest and most provocative voice, brilliantly laying bare the contradictions and evasions and self-deceptions that pass for empowerment."

-- Malcolm Gladwell, author of Blink and The Tipping Point

"Reading Female Chauvinist Pigs, Ariel Levy's lively polemic, gave me an epiphany of sorts. Finally a coherent interpretation of an array of phenomena I'd puzzled over in recent years.... Levy's argument is provocative -- and persuasive...a consciousness-raising call to arms."

-- The New York Times Book Review

"With the fresh voice of a young woman who grew up taking equal rights for granted while feminism was being perverted into a dirty word, Levy both shocks and sobers as she exposes the real cost of youth culture's 'Girls Gone Wild' form of status-seeking....A great choice for book clubs of either gender, it's a fast read and a surefire discussion sparker."

-- Minneapolis Star-Tribune

"Witty and provocative, painfully funny...as it documents the rise of trashy, raunchy, really, really bad female behavior, Levy's newly published book may well provide the next 'aha' moment in how North American women see themselves."

-- Maclean's (Toronto)

About the Author

Ariel Levy is a contributing editor at New York magazine. This is her first book.

Paperback: 236 pages
Publisher: Free Press; 1 edition (October 3, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0743284283
ISBN-13: 978-0743284288
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TJ Jones

This book provided great context and insight into the issue of sex-positive

September 18, 2016

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This book provided great context and insight into the issue of sex-positive, third-wave feminism. A lot of individuals have noted the implosion feminism has suffered in recent years. While women have arguably never had more opportunity, they are not happy. Levy makes her claim that feminism has objectified women, encouraged women to act more manly, and be sexually promiscuous in order to be liberated. Throughout Levy's journey of interviews and exploration she highlights the exploitation women face as a result of sex-positive feminism and seems to argue that despite progress made, feminism has embraced the chauvinistic raunch culture it had previously protested against.

It's said if you can't beat them, join them. Feminism has currently been beat and joined in part with the misogynist patriarchal culture and society is sought escape from. Women deserve better than being paraded and objectified for men and other women.

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Franklin the Mouse

If It Walks Like A Duck and Quacks Like A Duck... (A Middle-Aged Male Perspective)

February 25, 2009

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Speaking as an agnostic man who has been happily married for twenty-five years and raising two young boys (ages 10 and 8), Ms. Levy addresses an important issue which I have found very perplexing and disheartening. Raising our sons to respect woman and sexuality flies in the face of what they are exposed to on a daily basis. Short of our family running into the hills and living in a cave, this sexual objectification of women is the environment my boys will grow up in. Against this raunchy juggernaut, it makes our job as parents a whole hell of a lot more difficult.

Ms. Levy, in a highly readable, mildly sarcastic book, lays bare the pretzel-like logic used by women to find validation by being what is essentially a sexual trophy to men's libidinal fantasies. If depicting yourself as a quasi-prostitute is a statement of feminine empowerment, then Paris Hilton must be Betty Friedan...I don't think so. Ms. Levy's book is a sometimes whimsical but ultimately sad eye-opener on women being primarily valued as childish, superficial sex objects. A quick and thought-provoking read.

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Bag Lady

Truly made me reevaluate my thinking

November 7, 2013

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Reading this book made me reevaluate my whole thought process. I had previously thought of myself and feminine, independent and enlightened but I still compared my strong points to being "like a man." It is odd how brainwashed you can be and not even know it. Ignorance is bliss I suppose.

Anyway, this is a great novel on feminism that won't make the reader uncomfortable. It makes you question some of our culture and assess your own personal thought process. It also made me think of the adult industry in a different light. It's like a beginners look at today's take on feminism.

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Michael Evans

This is a really wonderful short exploration of how "feminism" has been hijacked by

September 28, 2017

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This is a really wonderful short exploration of how "feminism" has been hijacked by, what else, profit to further monetize sex and sexuality to the detriment of young women and men everywhere. And some of the worst offenders are women who aspire to wealth and power. Which is doubly difficult, because, to some extent, don't we all? But when I look at my daughter, I have no trouble deciding on which side of exploitation I want to live. When she's older, I'll give this to her without question.

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September 17, 2017

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Really, really enjoyed this book. Plan to keep it for when my daughters and son are older. Really good read.

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Dianna Vurchio

A very important read.

February 28, 2014

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This book is important for many reasons. All women should read this and really start looking around at what society and our culture has become. It's not just in back rooms, or major cities that this is all happening in. It's in every aspect of our lives now, and the damaging effect on our children (and thus our future) is shocking, to say the least.
This book highlights just how much is still needed to be done. We are not Post Feminism, it's not over, it's not something of the past. It needs to become alive again, but with real purpose, not the fake ideals we've been shouldered with and now accept as normal.

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March 18, 2018

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You don't get better than Ariel Levy. She is smart, thoughtful, decisive, inquisitive, and brave. I love this book.

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WhenInRome

I'm always buying copies of this for other people

January 13, 2014

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A little outdated (which is sweet and funny to realize) but a trail-blazing book on the deep problems plaguing third-wave feminism and the concomitant raunch culture. Also, a Wesleyan grad! Light, fun, but thought provoking.

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Ashley inman

Five Stars

Ordered for a class and the book came in great condition.

Published 3 months ago

Amazon Customer

Accessible, Smart, Fun

Initially, I was skeptical of some of Levy's argument — and felt she was a bit harsh in the opening chapters.Read more

Published 9 months ago

Simon

A Bang

Published 10 months ago

jennifer

Fantastic Book

I highly recommend this book. I was nervous, based on the title, that it would be judgmental toward other women, but it really wasn't. Very eye opening.Read more

Published 11 months ago

kendra

Shallow and Poorly Written

This book was a big disappointment. I was expecting some well-researched, reflective critiques regarding contemporary feminism and the hit back of raunch culture.Read more

Good summary of the raunch culture

Good summary of the raunch culture. But doesn't really analyze why it is so and what can change it.

Published 1 year ago

Mary

Five Stars

Published on April 18, 2016

Amazon Customer

Five Stars

able to read it so 5 star lol

Published on January 13, 2016

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