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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...
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2000.
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English
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Girls may be called "sluts" for any number of reasons, including being outsiders, early developers, victims of rape, or targets of others' revenge. Often the labels has nothing to do with sex--the girls just don't fit in. Tanenbaum weaves together histories of girls and women who finally overcame their sexual labels with a cogent analysis of the underlying problem of sexual stereotyping.
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