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  • Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture
  • By: Ariel Levy
  • Narrated by: Aimee Jolson
  • Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (38 ratings)
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By: Ariel Levy
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Summary

Meet the Female Chauvinist Pig - the new brand of "empowered woman" who wears the Playboy bunny as a talisman, bares all for Girls Gone Wild, pursues casual sex as if it were a sport, and embraces "raunch culture" wherever she finds it. 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. They think they're being brave, they think they're being funny, but in Female Chauvinist Pigs, New York magazine writer Ariel Levy asks if the joke is on them.

In her quest to uncover why this is happening, Levy interviews college women who flash for the cameras on spring break and teens raised on Paris Hilton and breast implants. She examines a culture in which every music video seems to feature a stripper on a pole, the memoirs of porn stars are climbing the best-seller lists, Olympic athletes parade their Brazilian bikini waxes in the pages of Playboy, and thongs are marketed to prepubescent girls. Levy meets the high-powered women who create raunch culture - the new oinking women warriors of the corporate and entertainment worlds who eagerly defend their efforts to be "one of the guys". And she traces the history of this trend back to conflicts between the women's movement and the sexual revolution long left unresolved.

In the tradition of Susan Faludi's Backlash and Naomi Wolf's The Beauty Myth, Levy pulls apart the myth of the Female Chauvinist Pig and argues that what has come to pass for liberating rebellion is actually a kind of limiting conformity. 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.

©2006 Ariel Levy (P)2012 Audible, Inc.

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Insightful but narration questionable

Very insightful look into sexuality and its evolution in women. Unsure if it's the narration or the writing, but it came off as condescending and judgemental in lots of places. Purchased in the sale would recommend doing the same- not a full price worthy book.

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a binge listen!

a good binge listen!

this will definitely shift your perspective on how our culture views sexuality and women.

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