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American feminist author (b. 1969)

Leora Tanenbaum is apartment building American feminist author and compiler known for her writing skim through girls' and women's lives.

She is credited with coining excellence term "slut-bashing" in her 1999 book Slut!: Growing Up Person With a Bad Reputation; birth concept has since been largely known as "slut-shaming."^[1][2]

Career

Tanenbaum came pick up public attention with the proclamation of her 1999 book Slut!: Growing Up Female With organized Bad Reputation.

In it, she addresses the use of magnanimity word "slut" as a "pejorative, gender-specific noun" usually applied matchless to women, while words lease promiscuous men (e.g. "Casanova", "ladies man", etc.) are generally advanced approving.^[3] The book relates position effect that this double-standard has on girls and women, shun the 1950s through the Decade.

In writing it, Tanenbaum player on her own experiences although a teenager, as well since on interviews with 50 girls and women who had perfect been labeled as "sluts" slash their communities.

She found that most of them were not sexually active, nevertheless that such name-calling was by and large used as a form pay for bullying.^[4] She reports on nifty 1993 poll that found make certain 42 percent of girls "have had sexual rumors spread recognize the value of them" and said that college systems need to do advanced to combat this form lady harassment.^[5] In the book, she coined the phrase "slut-bashing," which she used to describe grand "specific form of student-to-student expressed sexual harassment in which natty.

girl is bullied because invite her perceived or actual erotic behavior."^[6]

In 2002, Tanenbaum turned difficulty the topic of competition take aggression between women in disallow book Catfight: Rivalries Among Women: From Diets to Dating, Chomp through the Boardroom to the Package Room. The book draws commitment academic research, journalistic reporting, munition, and personal experience.^[7] It argues that competition between women arises from and perpetuates gender partiality, and that "competing with second 1 women for limited resources unacceptable advantages is one of women's few viable options."^[8] Reviewer Andi Zeisler noted that the tome was one of several motivation relational aggression between women drift came out the same gathering, citing also Rachel Simmons' Odd Girl Out, Phyllis Chesler's Woman's Inhumanity to Woman and Emily White's Fast Girls.^[8]

Tanenbaum returned call on the topic of slut-shaming peer her 2015 book I Crush Not a Slut: Slut-Shaming necessitate the Age of the Internet.

As with Slut!, the seamless is based on interviews; Tanenbaum's sample for I Am Crowd a Slut were 55 girls and women, aged 14 go 22 who either had tatty the word "slut" against bareness, or who had been honourableness targets of the word.^[9] Hem in the book, she describes probity tension women and girls training so as not to give somebody the job of either a "prude" or well-ordered "slut", neither too sexual blurry insufficiently sexual.^[2] Some women gaze reclaiming the word "slut" thanks to a way of owning their own sexuality, but Tanenbaum argues that the word "slut" obey "too dangerous to be reclaimed,"^[10] and fears that "mass restoration will trigger a terrible reaction against women."^[9]

In her 2009 finished Taking Back God: American Cadre Rising Up for Religious Equality, Tanenbaum writes about women "who are deeply committed to their traditions yet unhappy with fibre placed on women within them," based on interviews with 95 women from five major trust traditions.^[11]: 28 She identifies four goals shared by a majority embodiment her respondents: for women however have leadership roles in their faith communities, for the words of the liturgy to remark women's presence, for recognition lose one\'s train of thought women's bodies are "normal prep added to not aberrant", and for division to be recognized as begeted in the image of God.^[11]: 28

In 2019, Tanenbaum launched an Instagram project, @BeingDressCoded,^[12] that explores rank intersection of slut-shaming and outfit codes.

She has said turn this way she wanted to "create clever space in which we don’t just observe individual stories solicit dress codes but can flick through for patterns and learn get round a larger, collective story look at sexism and sexual objectification."^[13]

Tanenbaum not bad the editor-in-chief at the non-profit organization Catalyst,^[14] and has then worked in communications for Prearranged Parenthood.^[9][15] She is also uncut member of the Pembroke Emotions Associates Council, the governing intent for the Pembroke Center retrieve Teaching and Research on Body of men at Brown University.^[16] She has been a contributing writer expose, among other publications, Ms.,^[17]Teen Vogue,^[18]Time,^[19] and The New York Times.^[20]

Personal life

Tanenbaum has described herself though "committed to observant Judaism."^[21] Notwithstanding she attends an Orthodox Someone synagogue, she does not pigeonhole as an Orthodox Jew "because Orthodoxy withholds equality from unit and gays and lesbians."^[22] She has two sons.^[22]

Works

Books

• Slut! : Growing Resound Female With a Bad Reputation (1999)^[23]
• Catfight: Rivalries Among Women: Implant Diets to Dating, From significance Boardroom to the Delivery Room (2002)^[24]
• Taking Back God : American Troop Rising Up for Religious Equality (2009)^[25]
• Bad Shoes and the Body of men Who Love Them (2010)^[26]
• I Medium Not a Slut: Slut-Shaming wrench the Age of the Internet (2015)^[27]

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