Ariel Levy - On Being a Liberated Woman

What is liberation for women today? As you know, we've been probing this simple yet compelling question in recent months in other audios and in our landmark issue on women. To gauge the state of women's consciousness as the new century gets underway, we spoke with twenty-four remarkable women, leaders all in a diversity of disciplines. This audio features the view of journalist Ariel Levy.

Levy is a contributing editor of New York magazine. Her writing also appears in the pages of The Washington Post, Vogue, and other national publications. Her debut book, Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture, boldly confronts the equating of bawdy behavior with sexual liberation by many young women today and provocatively challenges their adoption of sexual stereotypes that feminists worked so hard to overcome.

BIO

Ariel Levy is a contributing editor at New York magazine and author of the book Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture, which has been translated into Dutch, French, and Italian. Her writing has also appeared in The Washington Post, Vogue, Slate, Men's Journal, and Blender.

Raised in Larchmont, New York, she attended Wesleyan University in the 1990s. Her experiences at Wesleyan strongly influenced her views regarding modern sexuality. After leaving Wesleyan, she was employed very briefly by Planned Parenthood and was hired by New York magazine shortly thereafter.

Levy speaks frequently at colleges and universities and has been a guest on The Colbert Report , Oprah, and NPR's Fresh Air. She has contributed to two forthcoming books, The Best American Crime Reporting of 2007 and Thirty Ways of Looking at Hillary: Reflections by Women WritersWhat is liberation for women today? As you know, we've been probing this simple yet compelling question in recent months in other audios and in our landmark issue on women. To gauge the state of women's consciousness as the new century gets underway, we spoke with twenty-four remarkable women, leaders all in a diversity of disciplines. This audio features the view of journalist Ariel Levy.

Levy is a contributing editor of New York magazine. Her writing also appears in the pages of The Washington Post, Vogue, and other national publications. Her debut book, Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture, boldly confronts the equating of bawdy behavior with sexual liberation by many young women today and provocatively challenges their adoption of sexual stereotypes that feminists worked so hard to overcome.