Female Chauvinist Pigs: Woman and the Rise of Raunch Culture - Couverture souple

'Impassioned and entertaining . . . you really must read' - Sunday Times
'Clever, coherent and cross' - Guardian
'Bright and punchy' - Metro
If the male chauvinist pigs of years past thought of women as vacuous sex objects, then the female chauvinist pigs of today are going one better - embracing raunch culture all by themselves. This is a world in which young women attend lap-dancing clubs - as patrons - simulate sex on shows like Girls Gone Wild and adopt the Playboy bunny logo as a symbol of liberation. They see these post-feminist antics as a short-cut to cool.
Ariel Levy writes that this is far from progress. Her timely polemic
explores the myth of this new brand of empowerment and refuses a
culture-wide obligation for young women to look and act like porn stars. Her witty and intelligent book makes the case that the rise of raunch culture does not represent how far women have come - it proves only how far they have left to go.
Ariel Levy is a contributing editor at New York magazine. This is her first book.

''In an ideal world this would be compulsory reading in schools' - India Knight
'Feminism's newest and most provocative voice' -
Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point
'Impassioned and entertaining polemic confronts the rise of raunch culture among young women. You Really Must Read'
Sunday Times
With a quarter of young women denying they are feminists, this polemic explores the myth that free-for-all sexuality is the same as empowerment and makes the important point that if women really want to be free and powerful, they need to take a much longer, harder look at their choices so far’
Paperback of the Week, Observer 25/6
‘Ariel Levy is brave enough to buck the trend for irony and remind us what’s at stake. Feminism needs her voice. This is a feisty, profound, furiously sane and readable book. It lets none of us off the hook’
Evening Standard 26/6
'Clever, coherent and cross' - Guardian
'Bright and punchy' - Metro