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Slut!
Slut!: Growing Up Female with a Bad Reputation | Leora Tanenbaum
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Girls may be called "sluts" for any number of reasons, including being outsiders, early developers, victims of rape, targets of others' revenge. Often the labels has nothing to do with sex -- the girls simply do not fit in. An important account of the lives of these young women, Slut! weaves together powerful oral histories of girls and women who finally overcame their sexual labels with a cogent analysis of the underlying problem of sexual stereotyping. Author Leora Tanenbaum herself was labeled a slut in high school. The confessional article she wrote for Seventeen about the experience caused a sensation and led her to write this book.
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Ekkross
Mehso-so

A good, interesting read, though a little out of date. This book was written before the term “slut-shame” came in to common parlance. As a result, the author uses the term “slut-bashing.” I appreciated that the book included ideas for what to do if you or someone you know is being sexually harassed/slut-shamed, but most of the focus was on girls and women in school. Clearly well-researched with poignant personal stories to support her views.

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Ekkross

“As the Cinderella, Snow White, and Sleeping Beauty fairy tales teach us, passive women are beautiful and virtuous, and competitive women are undesirable and unworthy. But not competing at all is also not an option.”
#smashthepatriarchy

Riveted_Reader_Melissa Sounds like a great read! Stacked!!! 5y
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Riveted_Reader_Melissa Off topic, but that ring is gorgeous!! 5y
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Ekkross
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THAT‘S NOT EVEN THE WHOLE LIST IN THE BOTTOM RIGHT CORNER

Eyelit 😡 so infuriating 5y
SassyBookworm This list is terrible! And I don‘t think a ‘player‘ or a ‘gigolo‘ are positive descriptions for males... 5y
Megabooks What the f??? 5y
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