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Book Review of Fast Girls: Teenage Tribes and the Myth of the Slut

Fast Girls: Teenage Tribes and the Myth of the Slut
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Calling a young woman a slut may be a new way of shutting her down, but Emily White opens up the term until it turns into a magical hall of mirrors, revealing all the ways in which fear of female power still shapes our culture. Ranking with the ground-breaking work of the Second Wave, much fiercer than most of what passes for feminist writing now, Fast Girls takes the discussion of the politics of sex to the next level.