Getting Theirs

Julie Ann Ponzi in the Claremont Review of Books reviews Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture by Ariel Levy

But despite her clear-eyed insights, Levy can't quite bring herself to indict feminism for its role in all this. Too much seems to be at stake for her: her politics, her upbringing in a family of feminists, her education at Wesleyan, her firm--almost quaint and precious--belief in the natural irrelevance of gender difference. All these seem to inhibit her drawing the conclusions to which her research and arguments naturally point. Instead of condemning feminism and the sexual revolution for what they have wrought, she insists that they have been misunderstood by "raunch feminists."