Slut!: Growing Up Female with a Bad Reputation

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'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.

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Leora is one of the most astute and thoughtful of the new generation of feminist writers, bringing both a rare warmth and a courageous conviction to all her work. Elizabeth Wurtzel, author of Prozac Nation and Bitch


Tanenbaum [has made a] bold step into the literary world to start a bold discussion. Newsday

Author Bio

LEORA TANENBAUM writes about women and girls and the unique problems they face. She is the author of Slut! Growing Up Female with a Bad Reputation, Catfight: Rivalries Among WomenFrom Diets to Dating, From the Boardroom to the Delivery Room, Bad Shoes and the Women Who Love Them, and Taking Back God: American Women Rising Up for Religious Equality. She lives in New York City.