Leora TanenbaumSlut! Growing Up Female with a Bad Reputation

In truth, I've rarely heard the term "slut" used by a man to describe a woman harshly (unless they were,like Major Major's father in Catch-22, "A simple man who disapproved of loose women who turned him down,"But I've heard it plenty of times for envious women who felt another was "a slut" juts for expressing herself.As a one-time rape crisis counsellor (usually dealing with the victims' male Significant Others to exorcisetheir guilt for "not having been able to protect her" or idiots who asked "what did she do to bring this on?")I honestly believe that "No" will never mean "NO!" to men until women are able to unashamedly say "YES!"We need more sluts.

High recommended love this book

I absolutely loved this book. Anytime the subjects of promiscuity, double standards, rape culture, etc, come up in conversation, I ALWAYS mention this book and recommend it to people interested in the subject. I never use the phrase "paradigm-shifting" but I will here, because it really did open my eyes in a startling, amazing way. The writing is engaging, approachable, and compassionate - the perfect book for both people who care strongly about the issue, and people who are new to the idea and want to understand it.

This book changed my life, every female needs to read this book. There is so much more about feminism that you can possibly imagine. I felt liberated after finishing this book. The real stories made me cry at one point because they were so shocking and unjust that they just broke my heart. Amazing book that will leave you thinking. do not hesitate, just buy this book you wont regret it.

I had to read this for a class I took last summer. It wasn't something I would have chosen on my own, but I was pleasantly surprised. It was rather good.I never really thought about the impact calling a young girl a "slut" would cause. It has made me think twice about saying or even thinking about a woman/girl like that.I think this should be read by every high schooler. It shows how words can cause harm to a young person.

I need it asap before I left for school but it arrived a day later no complain though it was in great condition and still cheaper than i would of gotten in school.

Arrived quickly. Very interesting perspectives shared in this book. I read it 10 years ago and just decided to purchase a copy because the themes of the book always stuck with me.

The book gives intros to various women's experiences that are so short, and lack so much detail, that the purpose of the stories shared is never developed. The way the author shares her own experiences through her writing is ok, but I expected better writing from an ivory league graduate. The concept of the book is good, but the execution was poor!

I cannot write much more than the review already written about this book, I'm not sure what compelled me to buy it out of 200 books on my wishlist consisting of feminist or religious issues this one for some reason screamed out to me over the others, perhaps it's the bright cover that did it!I'm glad I bought this book when I did, I was never called a slut in high school, sexual rumors about me were always going around but I don't feel that it ever effected me, it is now as an adult attempting to reclaim my sexual self from a past case of sexual abuse amongst petty gossip in the adult world that this is beginning to effect me, and this book is a affirmation of how I feel about my behavior and my attitudes towards those who look down on me as a 'slut'.I wish that I had someone younger than myself to give this book to, someone going through high school right now because I do think this is a fabulous book for adults and teens, it's not just about girls with a bad reputation due to sexuality either, it includes sociological and psychological observations about teen culture as a whole that makes it a fabulous book for teens. The book goes between the writers research on the subjects involved with this topic, research, case studies, interviews and wonderful real life experiences from a number of women from a number of different backgrounds in different situations. The real life experiences of the women who speak in this book is wonderful, it's not all down to the gritty bits, many accounts have explanations of where they were communing from as people, why others in their schools rejected them in the way they did. All accounts provide a valuable look back, where as some girls reading this may be in the thick of their poor reputation these are accounts of women who have come through them, showing the way and where teens sometimes go wrong in dealing with these situations.It's neither too academic nor attempting to sugar coat the subject matter so it is approachable to a wide range of people, and discusses the subject in a serious way without being too heavy - although this said if looking to pass this book onto a younger women or girl I would say this book may be too heavy for someone under 14, the accounts would be perfect for a younger girl, however I feel that the research is perhaps a little too heavy for anyone younger and some of the things discussed may be a little too much for younger girls to comprehend. With that said another point I'd like to make in regards to this book being read by teens is that it's not patronizing, it acknowledges in every way that like everyone else teens are sexual, it does not scorn it, nor does it condone it, it acknowledges that sometimes girls make mistakes, sometimes their sexual encounters are not their fault and nor are they always positive, which I think is another important message in this book.I do defiantly recommend it, the subject matter is of course not all that pleasant, particularly rape accounts of course, however on the whole this book is a highly intelligent explanation into use of negative terms such as this, the where's, why's, who's and what's.