Female Chauvinist Pigs
Subtitle: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture
Publisher: Free Press
Published: October 3, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780743284288
Subjects: Feminism; Sex Relations; Social Science; Sociology; Feminism & Feminist Theory; Popular Culture - General; Women's Studies - General; Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory; Anti-feminism; Sexism
First sentence: Late on a balmy Friday night in March 2004, a crew from <i>Girls Gone Wild</i> sat on the porch of the Chestfield Hotel on Collins Avenue in Miami, preparing for the night of filming ahead of them.
Description: Meet the female chauvinist pig -- the new brand of "empowered woman" who embraces "raunch culture" wherever she finds it. In her groundbreaking book, New York magazine writer Ariel Levy argues that, 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. 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.