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Title: Slut! Growing Up Female with a Bad Reputation by Leora Tanenbaum ISBN: 0-06-095740-9 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 September, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.36 (22 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: It's just so...true!
Comment: It's not really that Tanenbaum brings any new information to light. As an aware young feminist, I know see the double standard in action every day. I saw it in high school, I see it in college. But these stories are so heartbreaking! And so true. They remind me of my own life. And even I, a liberated woman, saw some of myself in the girls labeling the others. Even though I consider myself open-minded, I have used the word "slut" to describe others on occasion. Who hasn't? But now it has been permanently stricken from my vocabulary. This book should seriously be required for high school and college age women. I feel so much more free and aware after reading it.
Rating: 3
Summary: A topic that needs exploration but in a more objective manne
Comment: I enjoyed reading Slut when a preview copy found its way into the office where I worked at the time. The personal stories were very touching and I feel that this is a topic - the labeling of women or girls who do not fit within traditional roles - definitely needs more exploration. But my main problem with the book was that the author, while admitting that the sample from which she worked was far from random, still extrapolates from it, making claims such as girls who were designated sluts seem to become more successful or driven or whatever. What about those she interviewed who didn't fit that mold? It left me wondering if she chose the stories that she did because they fit within her hypothesis. I was disappointed that, despite her own claim of subjectivity, she made conclusions that she extended to a larger group.
On the flip side, it's an interesting book to read, to learn of the personal experiences of girls who've been tormented by the label and how they have overcome it or moved on. If the author could have refrained from her generalizations, I think the stories would have been powerful enough to stand on their own.
Rating: 5
Summary: As a guy...
Comment: I thought this book was great. It looks at the double standard that is the slut label in America. A good read for women as well as men.
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Title: Fast Girls: Teenage Tribes and the Myth of the Slut by Emily White ISBN: 0684867400 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 27 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: The Secret Lives of Girls: What Good Girls Really Do--Sex Play, Aggression, and Their Guilt by Sharon Lamb ISBN: 0743201078 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Bitch : In Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel ISBN: 0385484011 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 18 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Vagina Monologues: The V-Day Edition by Eve Ensler ISBN: 0375756981 Publisher: Villard Pub. Date: 05 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Clit Notes: A Sapphic Sampler by Holly Hughes ISBN: 0802133339 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: March, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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