Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Slut-Shaming & Lesbian Feminism


Article can be found here. I thought this would be interesting in the context of today's class discussion about radical and second-wave feminism.

"Viewing women only as victims of men's sexual dominance fails to hold women accountable for the roles they play in reproducing social inequalities," Elizabeth Armstrong, a sociology and organizational studies professor at the University of Michigan, said in a release. "By engaging in 'slut-shaming' — the practice of maligning women for presumed sexual activity — women at the top create more space for their own sexual experimentation, at the cost of women at the bottom of social hierarchies."

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