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

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Label

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

Title remainder

slut-shaming in the age of the Internet

Statement of responsibility

Leora Tanenbaum

Creator

• Tanenbaum, Leora, 1969-

Subject

• Girls -- United States -- Social conditions
• Sex discrimination against women -- United States
• Sex in popular culture -- United States
• Bullying
• Stereotypes (Social psychology) -- United States
• Teenage girls -- United States -- Social conditions
• Social media

Language

eng

Summary

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

Cataloging source

YDXCP

Dewey number

305.23082

Index

index present

LC call number

HM1096

LC item number

.T36 2015

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography