I Am Not A Slut

Author : Leora Tanenbaum
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062282603
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Am Not a Slut written by Leora Tanenbaum and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of the groundbreaking work Slut! explores the phenomenon of slut-shaming in the age of sexting, tweeting, and “liking.” She shows that the sexual double standard is more dangerous than ever before and offers wisdom and strategies for alleviating its destructive effects on young women’s lives. Young women are encouraged to express themselves sexually. Yet when they do, they are derided as “sluts.” Caught in a double bind of mixed sexual messages, young women are confused. To fulfill the contradictory roles of being sexy but not slutty, they create an “experienced” identity on social media-even if they are not sexually active—while ironically referring to themselves and their friends as “sluts.” But this strategy can become a weapon used against young women in the hands of peers who circulate rumors and innuendo—elevating age-old slut-shaming to deadly levels, with suicide among bullied teenage girls becoming increasingly common. Now, Leora Tanenbaum revisits her influential work on sexual stereotyping to offer fresh insight into the digital and face-to-face worlds contemporary young women inhabit. She shares her new research, involving interviews with a wide range of teenage girls and young women from a variety of backgrounds as well as parents, educators, and academics. Tanenbaum analyzes the coping mechanisms young women currently use and points them in a new direction to eradicate slut-shaming for good.

Author : Leora Tanenbaum
Publisher : Harper Perennial
ISBN 13 : 9780062282590
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Am Not a Slut written by Leora Tanenbaum and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of the groundbreaking work Slut! explores the phenomenon of slut-shaming in the age of sexting, tweeting, and “liking.” She shows that the sexual double standard is more dangerous than ever before and offers wisdom and strategies for alleviating its destructive effects on young women’s lives. Young women are encouraged to express themselves sexually. Yet when they do, they are derided as “sluts.” Caught in a double bind of mixed sexual messages, young women are confused. To fulfill the contradictory roles of being sexy but not slutty, they create an “experienced” identity on social media-even if they are not sexually active—while ironically referring to themselves and their friends as “sluts.” But this strategy can become a weapon used against young women in the hands of peers who circulate rumors and innuendo—elevating age-old slut-shaming to deadly levels, with suicide among bullied teenage girls becoming increasingly common. Now, Leora Tanenbaum revisits her influential work on sexual stereotyping to offer fresh insight into the digital and face-to-face worlds contemporary young women inhabit. She shares her new research, involving interviews with a wide range of teenage girls and young women from a variety of backgrounds as well as parents, educators, and academics. Tanenbaum analyzes the coping mechanisms young women currently use and points them in a new direction to eradicate slut-shaming for good.

Author : Leora Tanenbaum
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060957409
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slut! written by Leora Tanenbaum and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2000-08-22 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Elaine Castillo
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735222436
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America Is Not the Heart written by Elaine Castillo and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named one of the best books of 2018 by NPR, Real Simple, Lit Hub, The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, The New York Post, Kirkus Reviews, and The New York Public Library "A saga rich with origin myths, national and personal . . . Castillo is part of a younger generation of American writers instilling literature with a layered sense of identity." --Vogue How many lives fit in a lifetime? When Hero De Vera arrives in America--haunted by the political upheaval in the Philippines and disowned by her parents--she's already on her third. Her uncle gives her a fresh start in the Bay Area, and he doesn't ask about her past. His younger wife knows enough about the might and secrecy of the De Vera family to keep her head down. But their daughter--the first American-born daughter in the family--can't resist asking Hero about her damaged hands. An increasingly relevant story told with startling lucidity, humor, and an uncanny ear for the intimacies and shorthand of family ritual, America Is Not the Heart is a sprawling, soulful debut about three generations of women in one family struggling to balance the promise of the American dream and the unshakeable grip of history. With exuberance, grit, and sly tenderness, here is a family saga; an origin story; a romance; a narrative of two nations and the people who leave one home to grasp at another.

Author : Lauren Holmes
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0008123055
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Barbara the Slut and Other People written by Lauren Holmes and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Astonishing – one of those rare books that manages to be both poignant and hilarious. The last time we had a debut this big was Junot Díaz with ‘Drown’. Holmes is a major talent.’ Philipp Meyer A fresh, honest, and darkly funny debut collection about family, friends, and lovers, and the flaws that make us most human.

Author : Emily White
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684867400
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fast Girls written by Emily White and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Has she done the things of which she is accused? How is her reputation created in the first place? She is the high school slut, and Fast Girls explores her experience and her legacy." "In this fusion of reportage, criticism, and memoir, Emily White provides an in-depth look at the girls who were labeled high school sluts and the culture that perpetuates the myth."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Meredith Ralston
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228007992
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slut-Shaming, Whorephobia, and the Unfinished Sexual Revolution written by Meredith Ralston and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2021-06-16 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sexual revolution is unfinished. A sexual double standard between men and women still exists, and society continues to punish bad girls and reward good ones. Until we eliminate good-girl privilege and bad-girl stigma, women will not be fully free to embrace their sexuality. In Slut-Shaming, Whorephobia, and the Unfinished Sexual Revolution Meredith Ralston looks at the common denominators between the #MeToo movement, the myths of rape culture, and the pleasure gap between men and women to reveal the ways that sexually liberated women threaten the patriarchy. Weaving in history, pop culture, philosophy, interviews with sex workers, and personal anecdotes, Ralston shows how women cannot achieve sexual equality until the sexual double standard and good girl/bad girl binary are eliminated and women viewed by society as "whores" are destigmatized. Illustrating how women's sexuality is policed by both men and women, she argues that women must be allowed the same personal autonomy as men: the freedom to make sexual decisions for themselves, to obtain orgasm equality, and to insist on their own sexual pleasure. Dispelling the myth that all sex workers are victims and all clients are violent, Slut-Shaming, Whorephobia, and the Unfinished Sexual Revolution calls out Western society's hypocrisy about sex and shows how stigma and the marginalization of sex workers harms all women.

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ISBN 13 : 9781518213243
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Author : Tristan Taormino
Publisher : Cleis Press
ISBN 13 : 157344295X
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Opening Up written by Tristan Taormino and published by Cleis Press. This book was released on 2008-05-01 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical guide to making sexually open arrangements work outlines options for transforming monogamous relationships into effective polyamorous ones, in a reference that addresses such topics as boundary setting, child-raising, and conflict resolution. Original.

Author : Hannah Moskowitz
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1481405950
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Not Otherwise Specified written by Hannah Moskowitz and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Auditioning for a New York City performing arts high school could help Etta escape from her Nebraska all-girl school, where she is not gay enough for her former friends, not sick enough for her eating disorders group, and not thin enough for ballet, but it may also mean real friendships.