About this title: 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. With a wink and a nudge, they are welcoming back strippers, porn stars and Playboy Bunnies as the heroes of post-feminist culture. Taking off your bra used to ...
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Free Pr
Date Published: 2006-10-03
ISBN-13:9780743284288ISBN:0743284283
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Free Press
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780743284288ISBN:0743284283
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Free Press., New York.
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780743249898ISBN:0743249895
Description: Octavo (8.75in x 5.75in) white spine and black boards with cerise titling to spine. 224pp. A tight and crisp copy in Fine condition in a dustwrapper that is Vg+. read more
Edition: NEW ED
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER Country = UNITED STATES
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9781416526384ISBN:1416526382
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 240 pages. (240 pages) lively polemic on contemporary sexual politics that examines the post-feminist phenomenon of 'raunch culture'. edition new ed (Paperback) read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Free Press
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780743249898ISBN:0743249895
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Free Press
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780743249898ISBN:0743249895
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Free Press
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780743249898ISBN:0743249895
Description: New, Publisher overstock, may have small remainder mark. Excellent condition, never read, purchased from publisher as excess inventory. read more
Edition: Third Printing
Binding: S Trade Paperback
Publisher: Free Press, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780743284288ISBN:0743284283
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"really satisfying and interesting book. levy's tone throughout is light enough that you never feel defensive, but sharp enough that you recognize that there is something wrong. i appreciated the history and context for the rift between sexual revolution and feminism and how that rift deepened and how feminism became discredited in the push to "own" our bodies and do with them what we wish. what i think is interesting is that our society encourages girls to go wild, but then almost immediately chastises and alienates them for it. the position levy takes is an interesting one because she is not conservative -- and in attempting to gauge the conservative position on teenage sex and the current prevalence of abstinence-only sex ed, she proves that the conservative response is no more empowering to women: rather than using one's body to amass power, as is possible through "hotness" and sexual attractiveness, the conservative view is that use "cheapens" the woman. the language on both sides of this argument is the language of the marketplace. she repeats the (pretty obvious) paradox that we encourage young people to be sexual to have sex, want sex, inspire sex -- and then we tell them not to have sex and provide no information to deal with sex or sexual feelings. my favorite aspect of this book, however, was levy's continual examination of the difference between sexual desire and sexual performance -- a distinction that is rarely articulated. the performance of sexuality as found on MTV, in porn, in ads, and almost everywhere, creates a sex object -- object as in "something upon which an act is done." the actual desires of jenna jameson, for instance, are unknown. she performs in someone else's desire, she is absorbed into that idea of sex, rather than creating her own. why are we all so waxed, tanned, bleached, etc? why is THAT the model of sex that prevails?"
"This was a highly anticipated read for me. About post-feminist females seeking new-found feminism in strip clubs, pornography, and aligning with male chauvenists in a stumbling effort to restake themselves in the American culture. Ariel Levy hit the nail on the head with this one."
""Raunch culture is about creating a shorthand for sexuality."
Levy points out that the future was left open after a coherent message of a united feminism failed to surface in the late '70's as various contingents splintered off. Women in her generation grew up with mothers who took part in women's lib and ended up taking their mother's actions for granted, content to believe that the wave would swing forward with no action required. Initially, this premise was supported by the rising numbers of women in higher-ranking jobs, more equity in pay, more women working in general. But it fell apart as the next generation took the helm, unsure of how they might fit the feminism of the past into their increasingly complex contemporary lives, lives influenced by media in a way their mothers never could have imagined.
I mostly agree with the argument Levy puts forward in her book: that what is missing in American women, and maybe in America as a whole, is idealism and the power to act on that idealism as a force against mainstream media images. We live in a culture where radical movements are quickly absorbed into the mainstream in order to pacify them. Instead, we're content to reenact the images we see constantly in the media of celebrity, exhibitionism, and sexual behavior without sexual pleasure. Using current examples from our culture like Girls Gone Wild, teenage exhibitionism, historical feminism, and boi culture, Levy illustrates the issue from many angles. Women are denying themselves fulfillment in sexual, professional, and social realms by withholding from actions and behaviors that might present them as something less than the current ideal. And by doing so, they prevent other women, girls, and men from imagining and image of women any different from the one currently on display. The thing left out of the book, and the thing I think about often is: do any of us have the fortitude and vision to create a new image and what, exactly, does that look like?"
"Ariel Levy articulates so many thought I've had about girls and women's use of hypersexuality as a means of "empowerment". She looks at everything from second wave feminism and the sexual revolution to Girls Gone Wild and strippercize classes. I want to give this book to every teenage girl I meet."
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