Female Chauvinist Pigs: Woman and the Rise of Raunch Culture - Ariel Levy Reviews
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Newest Review: ... sex education to explain why this isn't what feminism was working towards and how far we have to go. It makes for a shocking ... more
... but fascinating read that deals with business, stripping, teenage sexuality and the LBGT scene. Her main arguments, that putting down the girls so you can be one of the boys doesn't work well for the rest of womankind and that our static view of sex as consisting of porn stars, boob jobs and showing off is constricting and damaging the development of women's real sexuality, are convincingly argued and backed up by examples ranging from statistics to personal experience to interviews. The book is engagingly written ...more
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Sometimes I look up from my bookshelf of feminist classics and examine the miniskirts, the lap-dancing clubs, the sexualisation of modern society and wonder what the hell happened? I struggle to see the liberation in sex work, the empowerment in selective sexism. If you asking those questions too, then this is the book for you. At 200 pages, Female Chauvinist Pigs is a short, snappy diatribe on the raunch culture and the women who buy into it. Levy deconstructs modern culture from Girls Gone Wild to the rise of abstinence only sex education to explain why this isn't what feminism was working towards and how far we have to go. It makes for a shocking but fascinating read . Read the complete review
