Books like UnSlut by Emily Lindin

Raina Telgemeier tells the coming‑of‑age tale of a young girl who hurts her front teeth in a Girl Scout mishap, faces bullying after braces, and finds unexpected friendship among a quirky group of classmates.

A poignant memoir of Adeline Yen Mah’s lonely childhood in a wealthy Chinese family during the 1940s, where she faces neglect from a stepmother and the weight of expectations while striving for love and acceptance.

A provocative play that confronts the use of the word “slut” as a weapon against young women, urging dialogue and action on sexism, rape, bullying, and the sexual double standard.

Introduces Luke Reynolds, who has the insider facts on the most proficient method to make companions, deal with bullies, and have a magnificent time in the middle school.

A candid memoir charting the journey of Jennifer Finney Boylan from James to Jenny, detailing personal transformation, changing friendships, and a resilient marriage of love and family.

A high‑school girl discovers her survivor’s duty to confront a killer who walked free three years after her sister’s murder.

Profiles prominent women who played significant roles in the American Revolution.

A candid memoir of Katie Rain Hill’s journey from a bullied boy to a transgender woman, detailing her struggles, self‑acceptance, and pursuit of gender reassignment.

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.