SLUT! : Growing Up Female with a Bad Reputation - Hardcover

Leora Tanenbaum

 
9781888363944: SLUT! : Growing Up Female with a Bad Reputation

Synopsis

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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About the Author

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 Women--From 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.

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