Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture: Woman and the Rise of Raunch Culture - Softcover

Levy, Ariel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1416526382 ISBN 13: 9781416526384

Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK, 2006

Synopsis

Today's young women seem to be outdoing the male chauvinist pigs of yesteryear, applauding the 'pornification' of other women, and themselves. This is a world where simulating sex for baying crowds of men on shows like Girls Gone Wild and going to lapdancing clubs - as patrons - is seen as a short cut to cool. Ariel Levy says the joke's on the women if they think this is progress., She tears apart the myth of this new brand of 'empowered woman' and refuses a culture-wide obligation for women to act and look like porn stars. This terrifically witty and wickedly intelligent book makes the case that the rise of raunch does not represent how far women have come - it proves only how far women have left to go.

About this title

Review:

'Female Chauvinist Pigs could not have been an easy book to write... Still, Ariel Levy pulls it off' -- Natasha Walter, The Guardian

About the Author:

Ariel Levy is a contributing editor at New York magazine. This is her first book.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1416526382
• ISBN 13: 9781416526384
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240