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I am not a slut

slut-shaming in the age of the Internet

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An edition of I am not a slut (2015)

I am not a slut

slut-shaming in the age of the Internet

First edition.
  • 4 Want to read

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.

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Harper Perennial
Language
English
Pages
387

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I am not a slut: slut-shaming in the age of the Internet
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Table of Contents

What's the same, what's different
Are you a "good slut" or a "bad slut"
Slut-bashing : face-to-face and in cyberspace
Reciprocal slut-shaming : sexual identity in an online world
"Good slut" containment strategies
"Bad slut" coping mechanisms
The rape of a "slut" is rape
Can "slut" be reclaimed?
Creative solutions to eliminate "slut"
dos and don'ts for parents of teenagers and college-age children
The slut-shaming self-defense toolkit.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Copyright Date
2015

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
305.23082
Library of Congress
HM1096 .T36 2015, HM1096.T36 2015

The Physical Object

Pagination
xx, 387 pages
Number of pages
387

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26889587M
Internet Archive
iamnotslutslutsh0000tane
ISBN 10
006228259X
ISBN 13
9780062282590
LCCN
2015410557
OCLC/WorldCat
900243475

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