From Barnes & NobleIn her popular Catfight: Rivalries among Women, Leora Tanenbaum described how women try to sabotage one another from adolescent dieting and dating to the boardroom and the delivery room. In her autobiographical Slut! Growing up Female with a Bad Reputation, she tracked her own difficult passage as a young woman. I Am Not a Slut delves into how the internet intensifies the phenomenon of "slut-bashing." A powerful document for teenagers, young women, parents, and men.
Publishers Weekly11/17/2014
In 1999's Slut! Growing Up Female with a Bad Reputation, Tanenbaum coined the term "slut-bashing," which she defines as a "specific form of student-to-student verbal sexual harassment in which a... girl is bullied because of her perceived or actual sexual behavior.
