Quotes by Leora Tanenbaum, Slut!: Growing Up Female with a Bad Reputation

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When a stranger on the street makes a sexual comment, he is making a private assessment of me public. And though I’ve ne — Leora Tanenbaum, Slut!: Growing Up Female with a Bad Reputation
In comparison, young unmarried women in America were fortunate: They had a certain measure of sexual freedom. Eighteenth — Leora Tanenbaum, Slut!: Growing Up Female with a Bad Reputation
Unwed white girls who became pregnant in the postwar years were considered psychologically disturbed but treatable, wher — Leora Tanenbaum, Slut!: Growing Up Female with a Bad Reputation
Indeed, girls can be so in need of social approval that they confuse harassment for acceptance--thinking that any attent — Leora Tanenbaum, Slut!: Growing Up Female with a Bad Reputation
I couldn't stand being identified by my sexuality, I retaliated by insisting that people regard me for my intellectual w — Leora Tanenbaum, Slut!: Growing Up Female with a Bad Reputation
If I had been armed with a feminist understanding that no girl deserves to be called a slut, perhaps I would have fought — Leora Tanenbaum, Slut!: Growing Up Female with a Bad Reputation
Intercourse was now forbidden to everyone but married people; bundling disappeared. In its place young courting couples — Leora Tanenbaum, Slut!: Growing Up Female with a Bad Reputation
Abstaining from sex, hitting the books, and wearing loose-fitting clothes are common ways that girls try to molt their " — Leora Tanenbaum, Slut!: Growing Up Female with a Bad Reputation