Leora Tanenbaum

Leora Tanenbaum is an American feminist author. Her books include the 1999 work Slut! Growing Up Female With a Bad Reputation, Catfight: Rivalries Among Women—From Diets to Dating, from the Boardroom to the Delivery Room (2002), Taking Back God: American Women Rising Up For Religious Equality (2009), Bad Shoes and the Women Who Love Them (2010), and I Am Not a Slut: Slut-Shaming in the Age of the Internet (2015). 2Education Leora Tanenbaum graduated from Brown University in 1991. Tanenbaum first came up with the term "slut-bashing" in 1999, which Time Magazine has written is the predecessor concept to the modern term "slut-shaming". Tanenbaum has also been a contributor to publications including NPR. 2Books 3Slut! Growing Up Female With a Bad Reputation In 1999, Tanenbaum published the book Slut: Growing Up Female With a Bad Reputation, which “documented the pervasive slut-bashing of teenage girls” according to Cosmopolitan Magazine. The book interviewed fifty women of varying ages to discuss how being slut-shamed had affected their life, and their stories of how to overcome this harassment, in a variety of environments, including secondary schools. In 2010, it was named by Ecosalon as one of the twenty most important books for women in print. 3Catfight In 2002, Tanenbaum wrote the work Catfight: Rivalries Among Women—From Diets to Dating, from the Boardroom to the Delivery Roo