The Male Chauvinist Pig: A History

by Julie Willett

Book Overview

In the social upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s, a series of stock characters emerged to define and bolster white masculinity. Alongside such caricatures as "the Playboy" and "the Redneck" came a new creation: "the Male Chauvinist Pig." Coined by second-wave feminists as an insult, the Male Chauvinist Pig was largely defined by an anti-feminism that manifested in boorish sexist jokes. But the epithet backfired: being a sexist pig quickly transformed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469661071
• ISBN13: 9781469661070
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.8" x 9.1"