Female Chauvinist Pigs
Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture (2005) is a book by Ariel Levy which critiques the highly sexualized American culture in which women are objectified, objectify one another, and are encouraged to objectify themselves. Levy refers to this as "raunch culture".
Read more about Female Chauvinist Pigs: Prehistory, Levy's Critique of Raunch Culture, Additional Critiques of Raunch Culture, Response
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