Slut! - Growing up Female with a Bad Reputation

Informationen zum Autor Leora Tanenbaum is the author of Slut! Growing Up Female with a Bad Reputation and a rising young talent of journalism today. She has written for Newsday , Seventeen , Ms. , and The Nation , among others, and appears regularly on a variety of national television programs. She lives in New York City with her husband and two children. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Leora Tanenbaum, Leura Tanenbaum
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 22.08.2000
• EAN: 9780060957407
• ISBN: 978-0-06-095740-7
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 134 mm x 204 mm x 20 mm
• Series: HarperCollins Publishers
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); SELF-HELP: Personal Growth / Memory Improvement, SOCIAL SCIENCE: Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE: Women's Studies, PSYCHOLOGY: Mental Health, HISTORY: Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), WOMEN'S STUDIES: SOCIOLOGY, EDUCATION: ISSUES IN EDUCATION, SELF-HELP: Gender & Sexuality