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Meet the Female Chauvinist Pig - the new brand of "empowered female" who wears the Playboy bunny as a talisman, bares all for Females Gone Crazy, pursues everyday sex as if it were a sport, and embraces "raunch culture" wherever she confirms it. If male chauvinist pigs of years past considered women as pieces of meat, Female Chauvinist Pigs of today are doing them one better, making making love items of other women - and of themselves. They think they're being brave, they think they're being funny, however in Female Chauvinist Pigs, New York publication article writer Ariel Levy asks if the joke is about them. In her quest to discover why this is happening, Levy interviews university women who display for the video cameras on spring rest and teens lifted on Paris Hilton and breast implants. She examines a culture in which every music video seems to include a stripper over a pole, the memoirs of porn superstars are climbing the best-seller lists, Olympic sportsmen parade their Brazilian bikini waxes in the internet pages of Playboy, and thongs are advertised to prepubescent females. Levy satisfies the high-powered women who create raunch culture - the new oinking women warriors of the corporate and entertainment worlds who eagerly protect their attempts to be "one of the men". And she traces the annals of this pattern back to conflicts between the women's activity and the intimate revolution long left unresolved. In the custom of Susan Faludi's Backlash and Naomi Wolf's The Beauty Myth, Levy pulls apart the myth of the Female Chauvinist Pig and argues that what has come to move for liberating rebellion is actually a kind of limiting conformity. Irresistibly witty and wickedly clever, Female Chauvinist Pigs makes the circumstance that the go up of raunch does not represent what lengths women attended, it only shows what lengths they have left to go.
