Summary Of Levy By Annie Levy

As well as different types of agents this concept of socialization that are easily relatable to the book. Women are trying to become accepted members of this society and Levy feels as though in order to do that, women are becoming more and more like men. Agents of socialization like your peers, education and the media can be held responsible for putting that idea out there. Your friends allow you to become more independent however, they also a great source of influence and pressure like the media. The media is where all this raunch culture is depicted, like in Playboy. Lastly, education is a site of influence, this is where they are supposed to learn social and cognitive skills about topics like sex, however, most schools focus on abstinence …show more content…
Since the book was published the raunch culture has been more or less stable. However, it still has not change the fact that women and teenage girls view strippers, porn stars and people like Paris Hilton has role models. Women have yet to discover their voice and find their independence, especially in male dominated workplaces. To reach success and be accepted they must become ‘one of the boys’ or deal with being perceived as uptight and prude by everyone else. Levy touches many subjects but she only focuses on middle class, academic, feminist leaders. A big flaw in Levy’s book would be her lack of a class analysis. Levy touches many subjects, related to the 1960s and 1970s women’s movement, but she only focuses on the middle class, academic, feminist leaders. She doesn’t talk about the working-class women and men fighting side by side for things like equal pay and against pornography in the workplace. Also, when examining the negative effects of raunch culture along with the pro-abstinence based sex education programs, Levy only seems to interview young female students attending private school, who have an obsession with this ‘slutty’ appearance. Levy does not interview teenage girls of a working class family, who have much less economic and social opportunities. With all that said, this book still seeks to inform a new generation in order to get them to reject the limit imposed on