Slut! : growing up female with a bad reputation

by Leora Tanenbaum

Paper Book, 1999

Status

Available

Call number

7.31.2 T3 s

Genres

General Nonfiction

All Topics

Nonfiction

Collection

Your library

Publication

New York : Seven Stories Press, c1999.

Description

As Leora Tanenbaum persuasively shows, the sexual revolution is incomplete: sexual behaviour has changed but attitudes toward sexually active young women remain ossified in the '50s' - Susan Faludi A groundbreaking account of the lives of young women who stand up to the destructive power of namecalling. Includes startling, poignant real-life stories of how good girls are turned into 'sluts', and a cogent analysis of the underlying problems of sexual stereotyping.'

User reviews

LibraryThing member the_hag

This book reminded me a lot of Fast Girls…but Slut! Was much less like an extended essay (Fast Girls had no bibliography and no notes). I would be more than happy to add this to my personal library…while I sent Fast Girls off to my paperback swap bookshelf. As anyone who has been around here a

while knows, this continues to be a subject that interest me in oh so many ways. I’ve now got several other books to look for thanks to the notes from this one…lol! I’d recommend it, but would only rate it a B as it leaves me with a lot of questions like HOW do you start talking to your children about female sexuality and WHEN…I mean I personally think that sexual experimentation is normal for teenagers…but it’s not widely accepted, that double standard really is still out there, bigger than sit. So, how do you go about teaching your sons and daughters that their sexual feelings are normal without also making them feel like they can in now way explore those feelings without being perceived as “bad” by a majority of the adults and peers in their lives.

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LibraryThing member harrietbrown

A well-researched, well-written book about sexual harrassment of young women, written from a feminist perspective. The author herself once had this epithet hurled at her, overcame it, and has gone on to write about how if effects women, as adolescents and as adults. She has some positive things to

say about how women overcome this label and go on to live empowered lives.

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