- Hardcover: 240 pages
- Publisher: Free Press (2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0743249895
- ISBN-13: 978-0743249898
- Product Dimensions: 21.3 x 14.7 x 2.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 318 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #343,389 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Required reading for women of all ages,
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This review is from: Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women And The Rise Of Raunch Culture (Hardcover)
Ms. Levy makes a great point: younger women have never known anything BUT Raunch Culture, a canned version of sex that teaches them only what men want from sex and nothing about their own sexuality.If you have daughters, or if you know someone that does, this book will help you understand their (scary!) universe, hopefully resulting in the kind of conversation that will lead girls to embrace (and not exploit!) their sexuality.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Interesting Topic, Superficial Analysis,
This review is from: Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture (Paperback)
In Female Chauvinist Pigs, Ariel Levy exposes 'raunch culture' in our society, and how some women seem to embrace base sexual expression as liberating. She presents 'raunch culture' (e.g. g-strings, pornography; i.e., women emulating and/or embracing male chauvinism) as a wrong turn that women have taken toward liberation.I found her overall thesis to be important, but far from solid. Ariel looks at the muddy margin of pop culture to find crude examples of sexuality gone wrong and attempts to mesh this into the overall historiography of the woman's lib. movement. This is a trite thesis, which I am sure could have been produced to similar effects for the last several decades. Apart from the shaky thesis, I thought that the book suffered from lackluster examples - as if attending the Maxim Top 100 Girls event, or attending the "Manshow," are fair examples of our mainstream culture. Ariel seems to pick on unsavory examples of pop culture and the daft people who follow it in an attempt to identify some grand cultural phenomenon. Her research is also questionable. Be prepared to read through pages of conversations she had with Junior High students, and FTM lesbians, instead of current cultural theory. Such primary research should be used to supplement facts and theory, and fail to stand alone as meaningful insights. Finally, although this book is very short, it tends to jump all over the place. Ariel attempts to tie in popular culture, the porn industry, LGBT dating stories, the history of the womens' movement, and Sex in the City. Her coverage of such topics is superficial at best. That being said, this book does have its place. It was a fun and easy read. I could see this book being useful for Junior High and High School students learning to find their sexual identity in a hypersexualized culture. However, unless you are someone who watches the "Manshow" without identifying its ironic distaste, or someone who thinks that the Playboy bunny icon is "cool," you won't be too enlightened by this book.
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Eye opening,
By Lindy (Ontario) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women And The Rise Of Raunch Culture (Hardcover)
This book documents the fast-growing phenomenon of the "FCP" in North American culture. Its well written, researched chapters make a fast and interesting read.Recommended reading for anyone fascinated by the history of feminism, and the future of the movement as well.
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