Slut!
Subtitle: growing up female with a bad reputation
By: Leora Tanenbaum
Edition: 1st Perennial ed
Publisher: Perennial
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
Subjects: Girls -- United States -- Social conditions; Teenage girls -- United States -- Social conditions; Sex discrimination against women -- United States; Sex in popular culture -- United States
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.
Notes: Originally published: New York : Seven Stories Press, 1999

Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-267) and index