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While on my latest field mission I was able to finish a book I have wanted to read for some time, Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture, by Ariel Levy. The book was very good.

I'd say it was a good analysis of modern women's changing, or adapting, rather, views of feminism and their role in our culture, raunch culture, specifically. It is really hard for me to put into words. I'd say it shows how many women mistake sexual openness and a sort of detachment as sexual liberaton and empowerment.

It analyzes the porn industry, strip clubs and their female patrons, female executives of media directed towards men, Girls Gone Wild and their participants, Sex and the City, Lesbianism, the list goes on. It really made me see a side of all these things I never noticed before. I'll read it again in six months or so, maybe the info contained therein will have a longer lasting effect. I tend to easily forget books like this sometimes.

I am sure the details I gave were extremely confusing, buit this was the first feminist publication I have ever read.