Education
Levy was raised in Larchmont, New York, and attended Wesleyan University in the 1990s, graduating in 1996.
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Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Vogue, Slate, and the New York Times. Levy was named one of the "Forty Under 40" most influential out individuals in the June/July 2009 issue of The Advocate. Early life and education She says that her experiences at Wesleyan, which had "coed showers, on principle," strongly influenced her views regarding modern sexuality.
After graduating from Wesleyan, she was briefly employed by Planned Parenthood, but claims that she was fired because she is "an extremely poor typist." She was hired by New York magazine shortly thereafter.
South. Personal life In 2013 she wrote about losing her baby at 19 weeks while traveling alone in Mongolia.
Politics
Some of these articles allude to Levy"s personal thoughts on the status of modern feminism. Levy"s experiences amid Girls Gone Wild appear again in Female Chauvinist Pigs, in which she attempts to explain "why young women today are embracing raunchy aspects of our culture that would likely have caused their feminist foremothers to vomit." In today"s culture, Levy writes, the idea of a woman participating in a wet T-shirt contest or being comfortable watching explicit pornography has become a symbol of strength. She says that she was surprised at how many people, both men and women, working for programs such as Girls Gone Wild told her that this new "raunch" culture marked not the downfall of feminism but its triumph, but Levy was unconvinced.
