 |
|
     |
|
|
|
Ariel Levy, Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture. New York: Free Press, 2005. 224 pp.
"Raunch Culture" involves the mainstreaming of pornography and strip clubs, Howard Stern interviewing topless women, college girls flashing for the camera on Girls Gone Wild videos, skanky fashions marketed to young teens. In Raunch Culture, a film of Paris Hilton having sex with her boyfriend catapults her to stardom instead of destroying her. In Raunch Culture, Jenna Jameson, porn star and author of the best-selling How to Make Love Like a Porn Star, is pictured in a four-story billboard in Times Square. It is a culture where every district is a red light district, where femininity is reduced to sexiness, and sexiness gets defined by Hugh Hefner.
What especially interests Levy, a contributing editor to New York magazine, is the eagerness of women to conform themselves to the most chauvinistic of male fantasies, and the fact that women partake of Raunch Culture in the name of the feminist goal of "empowerment."
Levy is no moral traditionalist, but her R-rated and well-written book is an alarming study of the pervasive seaminess of our culture.
posted by Peter J. Leithart on Sunday, April 23, 2006 at 08:34 PM
Permission is given to use material on this site, provided the source is cited, blog entries are republished in full, and the author is notified in advance.
1 & 2 Kings
Brazos Theological Commentary
The Promise Of His Appearing: An Exposition Of Second Peter
A Great Mystery: Fourteen Wedding Sermons
Deep Comedy: Trinity, Tragedy, And Hope In Western Literature
Miniatures & Morals: The Christian Novels of Jane Austen
The Priesthood of the Plebs: A Theology of Baptism
A Son To Me: An Exposition of 1 & 2 Samuel
From Silence to Song: The Davidic Liturgical Revolution
Ascent to Love: A Guide to Dante's Divine Comedy
Blessed Are the Hungry: Meditations on the Lord's Supper
A House For My Name: A Survey of the Old Testament
Heroes of the City of Man: A Christian Guide to Select Ancient Literature
Brightest Heaven of Invention: A Christian Guide To Six Shakespeare Plays
Wise Words: Family Stories That Bring the Proverbs to Life
The Kingdom and the Power: Rediscovering the Centrality of the Church
