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by Ariel Levy (Author) "Late on a balmy Friday night in March 2004, a crew from Girls Gone Wild sat on the porch of the Chestfield Hotel on Collins..." (more)
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  • Hardcover: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd (21 Nov 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0743249895
  • ISBN-13: 978-0743249898
  • Product Dimensions: 21.3 x 14.7 x 2.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 302,188 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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""Female Chauvinist Pigs" is smart, alarming, and extremely funny. With nuance and humor, Levy has written both a convincing expose of sex and desire in contemporary America and an important cultural history. I'm giving a copy to my mother. And my sons."

--Cathleen Schine, author of "The Love Letter" and "She Is Me "



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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book, 21 Jan 2006
This is truly a good book - I recommend it - it was all I hoped it would be. Let’s face it there are aspects of this world that are a mess and one such section - feminism, sex, dating, media portrayals of women and sex, pornography, teenage pregnancy, - is openly analysed by the author. The book is a good smooth read as well as being very informative. Well done.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A timely book - hopefully only the beginning, 13 Mar 2006
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This book is - or should be - a wakeup call for modern women and men. As Levy says in one of the books most revealing passages "Why does the new liberation look so much like the old objectification?".
It's a question which has bothered me a lot: why were many of my intelligent, supposedly liberated friends saying they wanted to become strippers, or have a boob job or wear Playboy t-shirts? Before reading this book I thought I was the only one who felt that we'd been hoodwinked. Many people say that Levy is a prude or that she is demonising women who do these things by calling them 'female chauvenist pigs'.
This is not the objective of the book at all - of women who genuinely enjoy and feel fulfilled by these things Levy actually says herself that she wishes them well.
Her question is why can't we come up with some new ideas about sex and gender - surely becoming a stripper or a porn star isn't the apex of feminine sexual fulfillment or achievement, is it? Is this the best we can do?
We've come round in a circle from trying to free ourselves from restrictive gender stereotypes to embracing them in the name of liberation, when in fact they are just as restrictive as ever. A vast swathe of the media (including both men's and women's magazines, who are some of the worst offenders)are selling us the idea that women have to look hot and be up for it all the time. They're feeding us the line and we're falling for it. When actually it's all about marketing - this hyper-sexualised, porno ideal can only be achieved by consuming more. More plastic surgery, more clothes, shoes, makeup, hair-extensions, more waxing and beauty treatments.
These people do not have our best interests at heart. They don't care if we feel good about ourselves or whether we're fulfilled or happy, they just want to make money and they've discovered that sex with everything is the best way to do that.
Why are we chasing an idea of sex that is so joyless (and ultimately sexless)? Why should women have to change themselves to enjoy sex - can't we just be ourselves, why do we have to be a pornstar or a stripper or a glamour model or whatever?
Hopefully Levy's book will only be the start of the debate, we need to re-evaluate our position on sex, on gender. Levy asks some good questions and we shoudl all be looking for the answers. The current polarisation that is happening between the sexes and the pernicious attituides to sex (and to women) pervading our society are having a corrosive effect on us all.



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2.0 out of 5 stars Female Chauvinist Pigs, 3 Mar 2006
Bought this book with expectations of reading about why some women feel the need to express their sexuality in a way which many other women see as degrading and humiliating. The first half of the book tried to explain some of these issues but the second half seemed more to do with anecdotal evidence rather than analysis of the issues and left me feeling that pehaps Levy had lost her way somehow. I would have liked to have read more about why some women in certain sex industries can't understand how they are being manipulated by men. The book does make the reader think about society and female sexuality and does create a forum for discussion.
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