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Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture By Ariel Levy ( Free Press )
Release Date: 2006-10-03
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Meet the Female Chauvinist Pig -- the new brand of "empowered woman" who embraces "raunch culture" wherever she finds it. In her groundbreaking book, New York magazine writer Ariel Levy argues that, 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. 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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Ariel Levy’s debut book is a bold, piercing examination of how twenty-first century American society perceives sex and women. Writing vividly, she brings her readers to places she visited to make her assessment; the elevator of Playboy Enterprises with women auditioning to be Playmates in the fiftieth anniversary edition, a Florida beach where sunbathers urge a woman to take off her bathing suit for the camera crew of Girls Gone Wild, a San Francisco Italian restaurant where a lesbian worries she’s not dressed up enough for her date, a CAKE party in New York, with women grinding each other’s pelvises in time to pulsating dance rhythms, and outside a juice bar in Oakland where a beautiful high school student shares disappointment at her experiences with sex. Levy cleverly leads us to explore the role models women aspire to emulate. We are not pursuing the confident, self-determined, powerful, free ideal the women’s liberation movement would have dreamed for its daughters. Instead, our icons are porn stars and strippers and prostitutes. Paris Hilton and Jenna Jameson flaunt their successes in the pornography industry, and in doing so seem to earn our adulation. Levy relates our embracing of this raunchy culture to unresolved tensions thirty years ago between the sexual revolution and the women’s liberation movement, and amongst feminists; joy at discovering the delights of our clitoris conflicting with disgust at pornography’s objectification of women. She creates a convincing argument by analyzing a diverse spectrum of material; presents a fascinating palette of interviews with revolutionary women’s libbers, nouvelle raunchy feminists, and everyday women and men. Detailed facts and recurring names are sometimes cumbersome, albeit worth ploughing through for the ‘a-ha moments’. The reality that we model ourselves on images whose "individuality is erased" is harsh, yet Levy’s work is imbued with hope – hope that women can celebrate their uniqueness instead of their ‘hotness’, explore their sexuality as delight rather than consume sex as currency, and succeed professionally because of their brilliant minds and personalities, not because of their brilliant bodies.--Megan Jones Ady
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 I loved this book
What an eye-opener. It certainly helped me understand why my occasional lectures on feminism and art given at colleges and universities are meeting with more and more hostility and misunderstanding.
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 Good Topic ( lilwritier )
Levy picked a good eye grabbing topic for this book: Sex. But when you get down to it, this book is little more then amassing of interviews of FCP and the like. In her Chapter Pigs in Training after all the interviews with teenagers and discussion she talks about how for her generation it could be rebellion against the feminist generation before them, but she can't understand why teenagers are turning into FCPs.
This is biggest issue with the book. She makes great discussion, but can't deal with coming up with good solutions or getting to heart of the problem that Media is shaping our ideas and there's no one out there with a loud enough voice to counter it. Besides this the book is a good starting point if you want to know more about America's Raunch Culture.
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Helped a college girl understand
I'm a 19 year old girl in college and although I always wondered how my peers could show themselves naked on "Girls Gone Wild" and other programs, I too have based a lot of my life on trying to be hotter than other girls so that guys would like me. I was assigned Female Chauvinist Pigs for a women's history class that I originally hadn't wanted to take, but after reading the book, the only I can say to Ariel Levy is thank you and that the book is amazing. When I was younger I used to agree that girls being so open sexually and being raunchy was a new form of feminism, but it really isn't. Raunch culture is just a new way for women to impress men in a way we think that they want to see us. My peers and I starving, bleaching, tanning and waxing ourselves into the same person isn't really what makes us happy. I was sick of men looking at me like I couldn't possibly be smart because I was wearing a low cut top, but Levy made me realize that of course men are going to act that way, that was how I was presenting myself, as somehow who only cared about looks. I think every girl my age should read this book and discuss it with their friends. We are really going against everything our mothers and grandmothers in the 60s and 70s fought so hard for.
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Finally...the insightful truth ( pinkdazzi )
It's interesting, as I work and live with 19 college women. I can't get enough of this book. It's what I've been saying/thinking so strongly for the past year or so. When I heard about this book, I thought "yeah, it's probably just another rant on women" but instead it exposes some of the steadfast truths of our modern society. A society laden with 'liberated' women who in fact are more oppressed than they ought to be..much of which is by our own doing. Society only reflects those things which WE buy into... I think that perhaps a deeper understanding of what has caused these issues, as opposed to a more exploratory approach could give it more depth. Whatever the case maybe..it's worth a read.
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Fantastic book, readable and insightful. ( babyjmz )
I bought this book a year ago, and have read it several times. I found it extremely readable, and well organized. I even used a few witty quotes from it for my dissertation.
I would recommend this book to anyone interested in the topic!
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