I'm the Slut of the School

✍ Scribed by Kaitlyn Fetterman

• Tongue: English
• Weight: 26 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Introduction -- ch.1. Insult of insults -- Who gets picked on -- My story -- Shame -- Strength -- ch.2. "Then there were the tramps": the "slut" label in the 1950s -- Mixed messages: the historical roots -- Sexual containment -- The sex police -- The sexual revolution -- ch.3. "She's so loose": the sexual girl -- Who is a "slut"? -- Good girls have no desire -- The romance myth -- Equality "sluts" -- ch.4. "She asked for it": the raped girl -- Bad victims -- The culture of sexual entitlement -- A rite of passage -- Nobody believes you -- ch.5. "Not one of us": the outsider -- "I'm sorry" -- Consensus through gossip -- Class dismissed -- Are you a jock or a druggie? -- All girls are outsiders -- "She's so pretty, let's kill her" -- ch.6. From sexism to sexual freedom -- "Sluts" and suits -- Just say no to abstinence-only education -- A support system --Afterword to the Perennial Edition -- Appendix A: What to do -- Appendix B: Recommended resources.;Girls may be called "sluts" for any number of reasons, including being outsiders, early developers, victims of rape, targets of others' revenge. Often the labels has nothing to do with sex -- the girls simply do not fit in. An important account of the lives of these young women, Slut! weaves together powerful oral histories of girls and women who finally overcame their sexual labels with a cogent analysis of the underlying problem of sexual stereotyping. Author Leora Tanenbaum herself was labeled a slut in high school. The confessional article she wrote for Seventeen about the experience caused a sensation and led her to write this book.