A lecture with Ariel Levy

Author Ariel Levy, regular contributor to the New York Times and The Washington Post joins us to discuss her ideas on 'Female Chauvinist Pigs'. She analyses how twenty-first century American society perceives sex and women. Levy argues that rather than pursuing the confident, self-determined, powerful, free ideal the women's liberation movement would have dreamed for its daughters, we have turned porn stars and strippers into icons. Levy was called "feminism's newest and most provocative voice, brilliantly laying bare the contradictions and evasions and self-deceptions that pass for empowerment' by Malcolm Gladwell.