Female Chauvinist Pigs : Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture (Paperback)

from djfoobarmatt

Easy to read, entertaining and interesting. Made me think and I think I gained some insight. It's basically a collection of research expeditions where Ariel interviews people taking part in various aspects of raunch culture. She goes filming with 'Girls Gone Wild', visits Playboy headquarters and...

from thedefinitefraggle

Snappy writing, but really problematic, especially the stuff on transmen and butches. That isn't to say that there isn't something worth looking at there, but it came off as a little transphobic to me. Levy is dead-on in that our culture is shoving harmful stuff at women while calling it "empower...

from Phantasma

While this book was interesting, it was equally annoying. first of all, let me state that FTM transexuals are not "becoming" men, as Levy states. They ARE men, just with the wrong equipment. Levy completely devalues this and seems to feel it is another way women are feeling forced into being "lik...

from gurgleburp

I couldn't really get into the fact that this book was written from the perspective of a conventional feminist - however, the author did ask some good questions about the commercialization of sex and managed to admit, at least once, that she has no problem with sex workers themselves. Why is it t...

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If you're as gobsmacked as I am by the idea of 'Girls Gone Wild' as female empowerment or Paris Hilton as a role model for teens' sexual expression, this book will probably speak to you and frustrate you as much as it did me. It has some enlightening (and deeply disturbing) interviews with middle...