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Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture (2005)

av Ariel Levy

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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'sBacklash 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.… (mer)
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  sgwordy | Dec 31, 2022 |
The book title does not deceive. There are certainly a lot of raunchy examples in this book. This is not a book to be read by the easily offended. The conclusion wraps up the opinion of the author without all the graphic details, so head for those few pages if you want to skip the details and get right to core of the book. My main complaint about the book is that the author clearly points out that 'Raunch Culture' is not empowering women, yet she seems unwilling to commit fully to that belief. The bulk of the book details women who appear very sexy but they don't find pleasure in sex. The pleasure these women experience come from money, a sense of power, manipulation, or sometimes not at all. Yet the author does not present any alternatives. In fact, if you take out the examples of raunch you are left with scant little reading. Still, the author makes very good points and this book should not be dismissed. ( )
  talon2claw | Dec 31, 2022 |
Overall this was an easy and fast read, with some of valid points. However, I read this a few years after it first came out and the main premise of this book seems very obvious to me, especially now that many of her examples (Girls Gone Wild, stripper culture) are so widespread in popular culture (Girls Gone Wild even seems outdated now). ( )
  serru | Oct 6, 2022 |
adult nonfiction; sociology. This was a book club pick and I wasn't sure I'd like it, but it turned out to be interesting and thought-provoking. Levy expresses perfectly what we've all noticed (whether consciously or not) about 'raunch' culture and the seeming idolization of sluts, and her analysis is fairly thorough and most importantly, digestible. ( )
  reader1009 | Jul 3, 2021 |
A cultural critique which is insightful and - I can't help saying it - so right! One of those books I want to order 10 copies of and pass to friends and family and ask, "What do you think about THIS?" Reading this text is influencing how I read other popular culture. In the New York Times, for example, last Sunday, the headline was "Bottoms Up!" - and the caption, under 3 leering young men - was something like "Seeds of democracy seen in strip clubs in Iraq." We fail to see the objectification of women as oppression. Somehow we mistakenly think that pornography is a sign of freedom instead of a tightening of patriarchy. Ariel Levy is both eloquent and convincing. ( )
  MaryHeleneMele | May 6, 2019 |
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As a consciousness-raising call to arms, "Female Chauvinist Pigs" is clearly to the good.
 
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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'sBacklash 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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