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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.
Here is a powerful account of the lives of young women who stand up to the destructive power of name-calling. Weaving together powerful oral histories from a diverse group of girls and women, Tanenbaum provides a cogent analysis of the underlying problem of sexual stereotyping. She exposes the arbitrary but common practice of woman-bashing, while noting that other women are often the perpetrators of this problem.
Slut! illustrates how little American society of the 21st century has changed when it comes to condemning women for attempting sexual parity with men. Though the definition of what constitutes sluttiness has shifted over the years, the similarities in the interviews of “sluts” of the 1950s and their contemporary counterparts are sobering and sad. An important investigation into sexual labeling, Slut! sheds new light on sexual double standards and the narrow definition of American womanhood.You may also like
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