Leora Tanenbaum is an American feminist author and editor known for her writing about girls' and women's lives.
In writing it, Tanenbaum drew on her own experiences as a teenager, as well as on interviews with 50 girls and women who had all been labeled as "sluts" in their communities.
[4] She reports on a 1993 poll that found that 42 percent of girls "have had sexual rumors spread about them" and said that school systems need to do more to combat this form of harassment.
"[8] Reviewer Andi Zeisler noted that the book was one of several on relational aggression between women that came out the same year, citing also Rachel Simmons' Odd Girl Out, Phyllis Chesler's Woman's Inhumanity to Woman and Emily White's Fast Girls.
[11]: 28 In 2019, Tanenbaum launched an Instagram project, @BeingDressCoded,[12] that explores the intersection of slut-shaming and dress codes.
"[13] Tanenbaum is the editor-in-chief at the non-profit organization Catalyst,[14] and has previously worked in communications for Planned Parenthood.