false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255632360m/6986901.jpg 18745 7 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. <p> 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. <p> 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'. <p> 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.--<i>Megan Jones Ady</i> 1483372 2005 Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture total:1637|5:367|4:640|3:473|2:126|1:31| 1637 6097 2386 326 18745 0743284283 9780743284288 1493 291 3.72 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167090623m/18745.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18745.Female_Chauvinist_Pigs_Women_and_the_Rise_of_Raunch_Culture 2 12 false Thu Sep 27 15:01:00 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 22 19:53:32 -0700 2007 more...]]> 18745 0743284283 9780743284288 1493 291 3.72 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167090623m/18745.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18745.Female_Chauvinist_Pigs_Women_and_the_Rise_of_Raunch_Culture 5 8 false Sat Nov 10 14:13:06 -0800 2007 Mon Jan 05 00:38:11 -0800 2009
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Let me start out by saying this is definitely not something I would normally pick up, and I'm feeling a little weird writing a review of a book so overtly about sex. But over the last few years I've become fascinated with teenage girl culture (I attribute this to working wit...more...]]> 18745 0743284283 9780743284288 1493 291 3.72 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167090623m/18745.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18745.Female_Chauvinist_Pigs_Women_and_the_Rise_of_Raunch_Culture 5 3 false Thu Nov 08 13:10:45 -0800 2007 Thu Nov 08 13:37:08 -0800 2007 more...]]> 815724 0743249895 9780743249898 120 28 3.72 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178650988m/815724.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/815724.Female_Chauvinist_Pigs_Women_and_the_Rise_of_Raunch_Culture 4 3 false Sat Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Thu Jul 19 14:17:20 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 20 12:04:38 -0700 2007 more...]]> 815724 0743249895 9780743249898 120 28 3.72 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178650988m/815724.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/815724.Female_Chauvinist_Pigs_Women_and_the_Rise_of_Raunch_Culture 4 3 false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Jun 28 18:24:23 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 16 11:18:02 -0700 2007 more...]]> 18745 0743284283 9780743284288 1493 291 3.72 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167090623m/18745.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18745.Female_Chauvinist_Pigs_Women_and_the_Rise_of_Raunch_Culture 5 4 false Sun Sep 14 14:35:33 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 17 20:45:49 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 14 14:35:33 -0700 2008 more...]]> 815724 0743249895 9780743249898 120 28 3.72 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178650988m/815724.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/815724.Female_Chauvinist_Pigs_Women_and_the_Rise_of_Raunch_Culture 5 2 false Sun Jul 01 22:46:59 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 01 23:08:20 -0700 2007 more...]]> 18745 0743284283 9780743284288 1493 291 3.72 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167090623m/18745.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18745.Female_Chauvinist_Pigs_Women_and_the_Rise_of_Raunch_Culture 4 3 false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Oct 06 18:34:20 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 19 22:03:05 -0700 2007 more...]]> 18745 0743284283 9780743284288 1493 291 3.72 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167090623m/18745.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18745.Female_Chauvinist_Pigs_Women_and_the_Rise_of_Raunch_Culture 4 3 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Fri May 04 07:54:42 -0700 2007 Fri May 04 08:09:02 -0700 2007 more...]]> 815724 0743249895 9780743249898 120 28 3.72 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178650988m/815724.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/815724.Female_Chauvinist_Pigs_Women_and_the_Rise_of_Raunch_Culture 5 2 false Sat Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Fri Aug 17 14:59:33 -0700 2007 Sun Aug 19 00:50:48 -0700 2007 more...]]> 18745 0743284283 9780743284288 1493 291 3.72 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167090623m/18745.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18745.Female_Chauvinist_Pigs_Women_and_the_Rise_of_Raunch_Culture 5 2 false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 21 07:10:14 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 21 07:10:23 -0700 2007 18745 0743284283 9780743284288 1493 291 3.72 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167090623m/18745.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18745.Female_Chauvinist_Pigs_Women_and_the_Rise_of_Raunch_Culture 4 2 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sat Sep 15 19:13:39 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 15 19:20:55 -0700 2007 18745 0743284283 9780743284288 1493 291 3.72 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167090623m/18745.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18745.Female_Chauvinist_Pigs_Women_and_the_Rise_of_Raunch_Culture 4 1 false Fri Dec 21 16:35:59 -0800 2007 Wed Jan 02 16:31:31 -0800 2008 more...]]> 18745 0743284283 9780743284288 1493 291 3.72 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167090623m/18745.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18745.Female_Chauvinist_Pigs_Women_and_the_Rise_of_Raunch_Culture 4 1 false Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Sep 11 18:03:47 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 11 18:07:32 -0700 2007
Levy points out that the future was left open after a coherent message of a united feminism failed to surface in the late ‘70’s as various contingents splintered off. Women in her generation grew up with mothers who too...more...]]> 18745 0743284283 9780743284288 1493 291 3.72 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167090623m/18745.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18745.Female_Chauvinist_Pigs_Women_and_the_Rise_of_Raunch_Culture 1 1 false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Mar 25 18:41:46 -0700 2007 Mon Apr 09 12:40:04 -0700 2007 root of the issue (patriarchy) and in doing so places blame at the wrong placemat. Rather than critiquing the dominant paradigm of power...more...]]> 18745 0743284283 9780743284288 1493 291 3.72 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167090623m/18745.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18745.Female_Chauvinist_Pigs_Women_and_the_Rise_of_Raunch_Culture 5 1 false Tue Aug 28 21:17:26 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 28 21:30:48 -0700 2007 more...]]> 18745 0743284283 9780743284288 1493 291 3.72 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167090623m/18745.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18745.Female_Chauvinist_Pigs_Women_and_the_Rise_of_Raunch_Culture 4 1 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Jun 05 09:46:59 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 05 10:30:00 -0700 2007 more...]]> 815724 0743249895 9780743249898 120 28 3.72 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178650988m/815724.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/815724.Female_Chauvinist_Pigs_Women_and_the_Rise_of_Raunch_Culture 5 1 false Mon May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Sun Jun 03 12:13:35 -0700 2007 Sun Jun 03 12:23:30 -0700 2007
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