The nominations for Mellissa
Raunch include Critics Choice Television Awards and People's Choice Awards.
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But then, when it comes to the subliminal hold
raunch culture has on young people, the Rihanna generation frequently confuse objectification with empowerment.
Today's raunch culture is not poles apart from '60s sexism
The resolution calls for the NUT to express its concerns about "the rise of what has become commonly known as '
raunch culture', where the old sexism of the past has been rebranded by big business".
Teachers raise alarm on 'raunch culture' Liberation 'taken over by big business'
The argument that I make in reading Levy's book, though circumscribed in this way, can nonetheless be seen to have significance in relation to a wider public debate on
raunch culture which encompasses issues of 'pornographication' (McNair 1996:137), 'sexualisation' (McNair 2002) and post-feminist sexualised representations of women.
Sex and the feminist subject: negating/engaging 'difference' in 'raunch culture'
Brand was his normal effervescent self, charming the willing female audience in spades, and with all the
raunch that can be expected with his act.
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Who can read the piece on Ariel Levy's discussion of the '
Raunch Culture', or Sophia Mwangi's Parenting column or the celebration of Indie Arie's music and Dr Precious Moloi-Motsepe, and fail to pass the magazine on to others?
Alan's beef on women unwarranted
The surprise
raunch factor should make it a success but unfortunately there isn't much more to it than that.
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Perhaps Gabby Logan is hoping Livesey will still have some contacts in the biz to launch her into the world of
raunch.
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"A Christian message, but when you place it alongside the consumer carnival and the
raunch and razzmatazz of pop culture, it sounds joyless."
Quotable & notable
FEMALE CHAUVINIST PIGS: WOMEN AND THE RISE OF
RAUNCH CULTURE Ariel Levy Simon & Schuster, 2005
Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture
This may be one reason PJ catalogs pack noticeably more
raunch to the page than the average.
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It's impossible to ignore the mud-flap girl on the cover of Ariel Levy's eye-opening book, Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of
Raunch Culture.
Getting theirs
Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of
Raunch Culture By Ariel Levy New York: Free Press, 2005, 224 pp., $25.00, hardcover
Women gone wild
Installing parental TV and Internet blockers, carefully screening movies and games, and helping children choose appropriate books at the library are just some of the techniques parents are using to limit their children's exposure to what Bob Smithouser, print editor for Focus on the Family's Plugged In publication, calls "
raunch, violence and hate."
Parents versus pop culture
And when the
raunch quotient eventually increases to a satisfactory level, Skin raised up above the grasping crowd like some deranged but good-natured dominatrix.
Culture: Better when she's a rock chick; Skin Carling Academy 2, Birmingham