Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture
In this eyebrow-raising debut book, New York contributing editor Ariel Levy sounds a siren alarm. She argues that today's "liberated" young women are all too often embracing raunchy Girls Go Wild behavior that would make their feminist foremothers blush -- or vomit. "My argument," she explains,...
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In this eyebrow-raising debut book, New York contributing editor Ariel Levy sounds a siren alarm. She argues that today's "liberated" young women are all too often embracing raunchy Girls Go Wild behavior that would make their feminist foremothers blush -- or vomit. "My argument," she explains, "is that women have forgotten that sexual power is only one, very limited, version of power and that this spring-break variety of thongs-and-implants exhibitionism is just one, very limited version of sexuality." Back-to-basics feminism.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780743274739 (0743274733)
Publish date: September 13th 2005
Publisher: Free Press
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
There are things I liked about this book and things I did not like.Overall, it was a quick and easy read. The reason for this is that the majority of the text is comprised of cultural/media examples and ancecdotes/interviews of female chauvinist pigs. While these were interesting, they showed limite...
Female Chauvinist Pigs is an interesting read but unfortunately a bit dated. Although it was published in the middle of the last decade, it felt a bit old, especially when specific individuals were mentioned to support issues of FCP. However, many of the elements/issues it contained are simply commo...
This doesn't offer any answers, just questions and the questions are pretty disturbing. This book was read while a man justifies a t-shirt that says "no+rhyphonol=yes" with a "not intended for ugly feminists"; where a book for children depicts a tomboy princess realising that dressing up is the way...
Did you know Barbie dolls were modelled after blonde German sex dolls called Bild Lilli? Disturbing to know I played with a sex doll as a child. o_OChapter One: Raunch CulturePublished in 2006 one would assume Female Chauvinist Pigs would be fairly up-to-date, but it becomes obvious quite quickly th...
She was fantastic on the Colbert Report (it was years ago that she was on, though), and the premise is intriguing.
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