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  Ariel Levy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ariel Levy is a contributing editor at New York magazine and author of the book Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture.
Levy was raised in Larchmont, New York, and attended Wesleyan University in the 1990s.
Levy herself felt that these women, and women as a whole, had forgotten that sexual power is only one variety of power, and that "this spring-break variety of thongs-and-implant exhibitionism" is only one variety of sexuality.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ariel_Levy   (454 words)

  
 OpinionJournal - Leisure & Arts
Levy suggested to a department head that it would be nice to have at least one course in the traditional literary canon, she was dismissed with icy contempt.
Levy argues forcefully in "Female Chauvinist Pigs." It was merely the academic groundwork for what she calls "raunch culture," now so ubiquitous that we take it for granted.
Levy is having none of it, and she is not the only one.
www.opinionjournal.com /la?id=110007288   (1090 words)

  
 Ariel Levy
With nuance and humor, Levy has written both a convincing expose of sex and desire in contemporary America and an important cultural history.
Ariel Levy understands that while we may defend to death every woman's right to look and act like a whore, it doesn't mean we're prigs if we find it unfortunate."
"Levy, who writes for New York magazine, launches her lively, well-reported book with a list of porn-culture influences...Levy pushes for improved, straightforward education on sexuality and health for young people, and urges women to do the work of articulating their own values, rejecting cultural practices that don't fit those beliefs."
www.ariellevy.net   (575 words)

  
 The Claremont Institute: Getting Theirs
Levy is at her best when describing how crass and un-erotic the raunch culture is. One of her many examples is Paris Hilton—considered by devotees to be the über-chick, the ultimate in sexy.
Levy laments that when she first noticed this trend among her friends and associates, she "tried to get with the program, but [she] could never make the argument add up in [her] head." She thinks that her aversion to raunch stems from her understanding of true feminism.
Levy is right about this much: raunch culture is not a sign of the moral progress we have made, but of how far we have left to go.
www.claremont.org /writings/crb/spring2006/ponzi.html   (1094 words)

  
 Campus CrossWalk Magazine: 2006 Spring Issue -- Book Review: Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Levy is able to describe a world in which women either try to imitate Playboy models or openly appreciate those who can “strut their stuff.” She asks how a porn star, Jenna Jameson, can become an icon in popular society — and not just among men.
Levy struggles aloud with the fact that many successful females find it seemingly insufficient to be successful in their fields.
Levy is not afraid to use seemingly crude language in reporting some of the things she witnessed in her research for this book.
www.campuscrosswalk.org /2006-spring-19.html   (564 words)

  
 The Unbearable Lightness of Feminists - Bernard Chapin - MensNewsDaily.com™
Ariel Levy holds the feminist vanguard of the 1960s in the highest esteem.
In fact, neither Levy nor her editors noticed that she refuted her own claim later in her book when she makes mention of a teacher in Palo Alto who brought in a stripper for career day as a means to advocate for the glories of that spandexed profession.
Levy is every parent’s Madonna (nightmare) as she states, “Rather than only telling teens why they shouldn’t have sex, perhaps we also ought to be teaching them why they should.” No, maybe we should just teach them geometry instead.
mensnewsdaily.com /archive/c-e/chapin/2005/chapin102605.htm   (1513 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture: Books: Ariel Levy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Levy relates our embracing of this raunchy culture to unresolved tensions thirty years ago between the sexual revolution and the women’s liberation movement, and amongst feminists; joy at discovering the delights of our clitoris conflicting with disgust at pornography’s objectification of women.
Levy, smartly expanding on reporting for an article in New York magazine, argues that the term is defined by a pervasive raunch culture wherein women make sex objects of other women and of ourselves.
Levy does a great job explaining the costs and consequences of America's all-pervasive "raunch culture." Where she did an incomplete job was in explaining the causes.
www.amazon.com /Female-Chauvinist-Pigs-Raunch-Culture/dp/0743249895   (2258 words)

  
 FT.com / Arts & weekend / Books - Porn again?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
As New York magazine writer Ariel Levy says, probably the most striking thing about Paris Hilton’s 2003 sex tapes is the excitement in her eyes as she addresses the camera, compared with the drudgery of actually having sex with her boyfriend.
But Levy finds a broader category of female chauvinist pigs who “profess to disdain women who are overly focused on the appearance of femininity”.
Levy is very interesting on female cultural commentators whose careers are bolstered by denigrating other women.
www.ft.com /cms/s/c81c89f8-9eaf-11da-ba48-0000779e2340.html   (1008 words)

  
 Female Chauvinist Pigs - Books - Entertainment - smh.com.au
But while others around her including well-known feminists were writing this off as a trend that would soon die down, the author became fascinated with such behaviour, why it was happening to females all around the globe and what it meant for women.
Levy said although the trend was thought to be liberating for women, this was not the case.
Levy said she did not know how far the raunch trend would go and didn't want to guess.
www.smh.com.au /news/books/female-chauvinist-pigs/2005/11/11/1131578211159.html?oneclick=true   (740 words)

  
 The Observer | Review | Observer review: Female Chauvinist Pigs by Ariel Levy
While male chauvinist pigs have long been derided, the coinage of Levy's title has risen to the top, claiming that her love of 'all things bimbo' is the gloriously liberated end-result of second-generation feminism.
They find this so exhilarating, Levy is told, that the programme's creator has likened the flashing girls to feminists burning their bras.
Yet everywhere else she looks, Levy is told that women who are uncomfortable with raunch should 'get with the program'.
observer.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,6903,1681575,00.html   (895 words)

  
 The Rolling Ball Web - Sculptors - Shab Levy and Ariel Levy (Gravitrams)
Shab Levy is the president of Levy Design, Inc., a Portland, Oregon based firm which creates interactive science exhibits.
The latest Gravitram was created in my studio by my son, Ariel Levy, in his spare time while working on his master's in Civil Engineering.
The Biographical Sketch by Shab Levy is copyright © 1999 by Shab Levy and is used with permission.
www.marcdatabase.com /~lemur/rb-levy.html   (959 words)

  
 Outlook: Women and Raunch Washingtonpost.com - Find Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
For her book, author Levy talked to a variety of women about the explosion of raunch culture, and was surprised by how many had bought into this growing commercialization of sex and sexuality.
Ariel Levy, author of "Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture," was online Monday, Sept. 19, at 2 p.m.
Ariel Levy: It's funny...people keep warning me I'm going to get booed and saying that my book, Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture, is going to infuriate people, but so far that hasn't happened.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0NTQ/is_2005_Sept_19/ai_n15631569   (889 words)

  
 The Infinitely Patient Computer Teaches Problem Students to Read
oreey Levy had come to believe that her 12-year-old daughter Ariel, diagnosed with cerebral palsy when she was 7 months old, would never learn to read.
Ariel was one of ten children Robins recruited to test his program last spring.
For Ariel's mother, however, the technology has been only one part of her daughter's phenomenal progress.
partners.nytimes.com /library/cyber/week/0926read.html   (1438 words)

  
 The Wesleyan Argus - Alumna writer criticizes American "bimbo" culture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
In 2004 Levy accompanied the company's camera crew on a spring break search for girls willing to bare all, and what she witnessed, she said, deeply disturbed her.
She said that all the aspects of "raunch culture" (pornography and overt sexual displays, for example) that 1960s and 70s feminists detested are now seen by many young women as examples of sexual empowerment and freedom.
Levy said she does not see anything inherently wrong with pornography, but she is concerned with how Americans perceive it.
www.wesleyanargus.com /article.php?article_id=2760   (543 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Female Chauvinist Pigs : Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture: Books: Ariel Levy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
The reason, Levy posits, is because women are getting in on the act and participating in their own exploitation.
Levy notes how the anti-woman attitude has even invaded lesbian culture as sexually adventurous lesbians refer to themselves as 'bois' and resist the attempts of "femmes" to get them to settle down.
Levy makes a great point: younger women have never known anything BUT Raunch Culture, a canned version of sex that teaches them only what men want from sex and nothing about their own sexuality.
www.amazon.ca /Female-Chauvinist-Pigs-Raunch-Culture/dp/0743249895   (786 words)

  
 'Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture' by Ariel Levy
In her quest to uncover why this is happening, Levy interviews college women who flash for the cameras on spring break and teens raised on Paris Hilton and breast implants.
She examines a culture in which every music video seems to feature a stripper on a pole, the memoirs of porn stars are climbing the best-seller lists, Olympic athletes parade their Brazilian bikini waxes in the pages of Playboy, and thongs are marketed to prepubescent girls.
Levy meets the high-powered women who create raunch culture—the new oinking women warriors of the corporate and entertainment worlds who eagerly defend their efforts to be "one of the guys." And she traces the history of this trend back to conflicts between the women's movement and the sexual revolution long left unresolved.
www2.oprah.com /tows/booksseen/200604/tows_book_20060410_alevy.jhtml   (242 words)

  
 - Female Chauvinist Pigs, Part One by Ariel Levy
I want to know if other species are as obsessed with analysing their 'sexuality' and their 'gender' as humans are - or whether they just live them.
Ariel Levy must be one of those old fuddy duddy types who doesn't have the courage to shave her genitalia to be powerful or to submit to an archane religious splinter group who happened to take political control of her nation state.
I've got the feeling that the answer to one of these questions is "no" while the other gets an affirmative.
www.newmatilda.com /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=111   (343 words)

  
 Smart Women on "Stupid Girls": Female Chauvinists
Citing the Girls Gone Wild girls as an example, Ariel Levy, author of Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture says that women are exploiting themselves and other women.
Ariel says the rise of the "female chauvinist" is partly generational.
Ariel says young women are specifically imitating women in the sex industry, not just celebrities.
www.oprah.com /tows/slide/200604/20060410/slide_20060410_350_110.jhtml   (196 words)

  
 The Dean's Gambit, Aug   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
In the sunlit library of Oxford Primary School in Berkeley, Levy hovered near the board and noted the moves on an official score sheet: pawn to queen four, pawn to queen four in reply, knight to king bishop three, etc.
Ariel took her defeat with an aplomb rarely visited upon losing chess players.
The position on the board is all that counts." It didn't matter whether he was playing Alexander Alekhine or Ariel Levy - he is always out to win.
www.chessdryad.com /articles/kolti/dean_g.htm   (2647 words)

  
 Summation: Ariel Levy writes Female Chauvinist Pigs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Ariel was a high school classmate of mine who I always admired for her intellect but we had lost touch and hadn't spoken since we were 18.
My advice to you: even is Ariel Levy is not a former classmate of yours, this is a book worth reading (and it is a really quick plane-flight book).
Apparently Levy was on Oprah the other dya (I missed it unfortunately) and I've found articles springing up everywhere about her book.
summation.typepad.com /summation/2006/01/ariel_levy_writ.html   (404 words)

  
 Powell's Books - Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture by Ariel Levy
Levy meets the high-powered women who create raunch culture — the new oinking women warriors of the corporate and entertainment worlds who eagerly defend their efforts to be "one of the guys." And she traces the history of this trend back to conflicts between the women's movement and the sexual revolution long left unresolved.
In the tradition 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 pass for liberating rebellion is actually a kind of limiting conformity.
"Ariel Levy has given us an important, lively, shocking investigative report about how and why — in an age of HIV/AIDS and religious fundamentalism — U.S. commercialism has mainstreamed pornography, popularized raunch images (and practices), and revived female 'bimbo' roles.
www.powells.com /biblio/0743249895?&PID=24248   (1076 words)

  
 To the Best of Our Knowledge
Ariel Levy, author of "Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture" tells Anne Strainchamps we are living in a Feminist's nightmare: in rebelling against their Feminist mothers, today's young women adopt the exploitive symbols of male chauvinism and claim that it empowers them.
Also, Nuala O'Faolain talks to Steve Paulson about her book, "The Story of Chicago May." May was a 19th century Irish immigrant who became a con-woman and crook instead of a maid or factory worker and lived an extraordinary, operatic life.
Ariel Levy, Female Chauvinist Pig: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture (Free Press)
www.wpr.org /book/051030a.html   (517 words)

  
 ColbertNation.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
I mean I’ll try, but Ariel Levy is appearing on the show because she wrote a book called Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture– and don’t even get me started on female pigs!
Ariel Levy was employed by Planned Parenthood for a week, but soon they fired her for being “an extremely poor typist.” I had the same problem before I bought Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing for my computer!
Ariel Levy once wrote an article called “Me Tarzan You Jane.” I never really thought of myself as a vine-swinging jungle dweller, but sure, if you say so, Ariel Levy!
www.colbertnation.com /index.php?paged=2   (663 words)

  
 Levy’s Blog, Brought to You by Levy’s Mom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Levy should go all Fight Club on Sprint so we all can get out of our contracts.
Levy should suffer because he was too big of an idiot to listent o m3zz in the first place!!
Levy’s Blog, Brought to You by Levy’s Mom is proudly powered by WordPress and uses the MinusOne theme by Matt Mueller.
levysmom.theoriginaldave.com   (489 words)

  
 Salon.com Books | Girls gone wild   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
In "Female Chauvinist Pigs," Ariel Levy asks why so many young women today have embraced a raunchy, porn-drenched sexuality
A quick glance at the T-shirts ought to be enough of a clue that all is not well in American mass culture.
Enter New York magazine writer and editor Ariel Levy.
archive.salon.com /books/review/2005/10/05/levy/index_np.html   (355 words)

  
 Atavism Blog » Female Chauvinist Pigs - Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture: Ariel Levy
Female Chauvinist Pigs - Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture: Ariel Levy
Haven't finished this yet - Levy is not a great writer, but she has some great points.
I remember watching Sex and the City years ago and feeling sad that it was being sold as a portrait of modern female liberation when it (the tv series, not the original book) was clearly written by someone who despised women.
www.elfparts.com /weblog/pivot/entry.php?id=270   (172 words)

  
 The Rolling Ball Web - Sculptors - Ariel Levy Gravitram in Dallas, Texas
was created by Ariel Levy, Shab Levy's son, and installed in The Science Place, Dallas, Texas, in 1999.
The images on this page are copyright © 1999 by Shab Levy.
With the exception of any material noted as being in the public domain, the text and encoding of this document are copyright © 1999 by David M. MacMillan.
www.marcdatabase.com /~lemur/rb-levy-gravitram-dallas.html   (242 words)

  
 Prominent Hollywood plastic surgeon tells Vogue readers that use of nurse anesthetists is "unsafe"
The basic point of Levy's piece is to remind readers that, though society in the "Extreme Makeover" era may have come to take cosmetic surgery for granted, it is still surgery, and tragic outcomes are possible.
I am writing to express my grave concern about an inaccurate and harmful statement about nurse anesthetists in Ariel Levy's article "Shopping for surgery" in the June issue of Vogue.
Levy and Vogue to publicly apologize to all Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists in the lead letter of the next Vogue's "talkingback" section.
www.nursingadvocacy.org /news/2004jun/vogue.html   (1318 words)

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