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The author of the groundbreaking work Slut! explores the phenomenon of slut-shaming in the age of sexting, tweeting, and “liking.” She shows that the sexual double standard is more dangerous than ever before and offers wisdom and strategies for alleviating its destructive effects on young women’s lives.
Young women are encouraged to express themselves sexually. Yet when they do, they are derided as “sluts.” Caught in a double bind of mixed sexual messages, young women are confused. To fulfill the contradictory roles of being sexy but not slutty, they create an “experienced” identity on social media-even if they are not sexually active—while ironically referring to themselves and their friends as “sluts.”
But this strategy can become a weapon used against young women in the hands of peers who circulate rumors and innuendo—elevating age-old slut-shaming to deadly levels, with suicide among bullied teenage girls becoming increasingly common. Now, Leora Tanenbaum revisits her influential work on sexual stereotyping to offer fresh insight into the digital and face-to-face worlds contemporary young women inhabit. She shares her new research, involving interviews with a wide range of teenage girls and young women from a variety of backgrounds as well as parents, educators, and academics. Tanenbaum analyzes the coping mechanisms young women currently use and points them in a new direction to eradicate slut-shaming for good.
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An essential defense of supporting girls and women instead of tearing them down
Every English speaker should read this book about the harm inherent in policing girls and women by tearing down their reputations because of their perceived excess of sexuality. All 75 of my English Composition students will have to, at least parts of it. Since the author, Leora Tanenbaum of Planned Parenthood, wrote it with verve, clarity, courage, and her finger right on the pulse of American youth culture, they'll have no excuse not to!
Who the hell are any of us to judge how much sex is too much sex? And besides, slut-shaming does NOTHING to prevent teen pregnancy or risky sex; it just makes many girls and women hate themselves as shown by Tanenbaum's exhaustive research and sensitive interviews with several dozen girls and young women. Tanenbaum argues convincingly that feminist efforts to take back the word 'slut,' like the LGBT community has done with the word 'queer,' are doomed to failure because our chauvinistic culture of double standards will continue to...
... latest book is no exception to her rule -- amazing!! I have two young daughters and I ...
You must read this book and then read it again and share it with everyone you know!
I just bought a copy for a friend's sixtieth birthday. I am buying another copy for my fifteen year-old son.
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