Ariel Levy Tackles Female Raunch Culture
I have been thinking over the past few years about the rise of what I call "post-post feminism": this new era of action among women where they become ostensibly one of the boys. Ariel Levy beat me to writing this book. She covers this culture, ranging from the rise of the sexualization of young girls to boi culture among lesbians. This book is thoughtful, well-crafted and well researched from someone in the age group that is predominantly written about.
She follows the crew of "Girls Gone Wild" as they simultaneously film young women stripping for the camera and argue that it's good for women as a collective whole to do so. Without offering much of her own insight, Levy documents what she sees. I enjoy this- I was essentially given backstage passes to a performance I've always wondered about.
It was a tough book to put down. I read it in about three nights, which is difficult not to do when Levy flows from the industry of labia augmentations to stripping-as-exercise classes to the quagmire that teenage girls are in of needing to be not only smart, hot and multi-talented but bad-ass, as well.
It's a book that will get a lot of mileage out of it. I've already lent it to three people and have a waiting list going.
