Books like Slut! by Leora Tanenbaum

A scholarly collection of essays that explores women's sexuality, covering topics such as menstruation, pornography, prostitution, pregnancy, and motherhood.

A collection of letters from an older brother to a young sister, offering wise advice and encouragement for young women everywhere.

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.

Emily Lindin chronicles her battle against bullying and identity stigma during middle school, revealing how her diary helped her confront the label of "slut" and find resilience.

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.