num_pages: 280
description: 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.
language: English
title: Slut!: Growing Up Female with a Bad Reputation
titlecomplete: Slut!: Growing Up Female with a Bad Reputation
genres: Feminism, Gender Studies, Sociology, Psychology, Gender, Womens Studies, Sexuality, Nonfiction, Social Science, Womens
ratings_count: 1947
publisher: Harper Perennial