I Am Not a Slut: Slut-Shaming in the Age of the Internet

I Am Not a Slut: Slut-Shaming in the Age of the Internet

by Leora Tanenbaum
I Am Not a Slut: Slut-Shaming in the Age of the Internet

I Am Not a Slut: Slut-Shaming in the Age of the Internet

by Leora Tanenbaum

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Overview

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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780062282606
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 11/21/2023
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 388
File size: 921 KB

About the Author

Leora Tanenbaum is the author of Slut! Growing Up Female with a Bad Reputation and a rising young talent of journalism today. She has written for Newsday, Seventeen, Ms., and The Nation, among others, and appears regularly on a variety of national television programs. She lives in New York City with her husband and two children.

Table of Contents

Introduction vii

Chapter 1 What's the Sams, What's Different 1

Chapter 2 Are You a "Good Slut" or a "Bad Slut"? 27

Chapter 3 Slut-Bashing: Face-to-Face and in Cyberspace 63

Chapter 4 Reciprocal Slut-Shaming: Sexual Identity in an Online World 107

Chapter 5 "Good Slut" Containment Strategies 141

Chapter 6 "Bad Slut" Coping Mechanisms 193

Chapter 7 The Rape of a "Slut" Is Rape 239

Chapter 8 Can "Slut" Be Reclaimed? 279

Chapter 9 Creative Solutions to Eliminate "Slut" 305

Appendix A Dos and Don'ts for Parents of Teenagers and College-Age Children 327

Appendix B The Slut-Shaming Self-Defense Toolkit 339

Appendix C Resources 343

Acknowledgments 353

Notes 355

Index 377

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