Slut! : Growing up Female with a Bad Reputation
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Good fit if you want...
- You value investigative cultural critique about girls and reputation.
- You read gender studies that combine interviews, reportage, and analysis.
Maybe skip if...
- You expect a prescriptive self-help guide for personal relationships.
- You want a purely academic, citation-heavy textbook on sexuality.
- You only want something with very current references and examples.
Summary
In Slut! Leora Tanenbaum blends reporting, interviews, and cultural critique to trace how girls and young women are policed by sexual labels, exploring schools, families, media, and peer networks across 304 pages.
Edition on file: 2000 • Harpercollins • 304 pages • ISBN 9780060957407.
Why this book now
Two decades after its 2000 HarperCollins release, Tanenbaum's study remains urgent as online shaming and campus debates revive the book's questions about reputation and gender.
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Reading commitment
Balanced Moderate time
At about 304 pages, expect a mid-length nonfiction read mixing narrative interviews and social analysis—suitable for several focused evenings or weekend reading sessions.
What stands out here
This HarperCollins edition preserves Tanenbaum's original 2000 reportage and voice, highlighting contemporary case studies and cultural examples that anchor the book's arguments.
Best way to approach it
Read with attention to individual stories and chapter-by-chapter examples; pause to reflect on the social contexts Tanenbaum cites and how they map onto modern online culture.
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