O Femina! O Mores!

Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture, by Ariel Levy (Free Press, 240 pp., $25)

I USED hot-pink post-it notes to mark the pages of this book; it seemed appropriate, since they matched so perfectly the book’s hot-pink cover. The cover, in turn, is highly appropriate for the book’s contents. Its author, New York magazine contributing editor Ariel Levy, has spent several years looking at today’s young women-how they dress and behave, what they watch and whom they admire-and she is very, very perplexed.

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Myrna Blyth

Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture, by Ariel Levy (Free Press, 240 pp., $25)

I USED hot-pink post-it notes to mark the pages of this book; it seemed appropriate, since they matched so perfectly the book’s hot-pink cover. The cover, in turn, is highly appropriate for the book’s contents. Its author, New York magazine contributing editor Ariel Levy, has spent several years looking at today’s young women-how they dress and behave, what they watch and whom they admire-and she is very, very perplexed.