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Although young women claim sexual freedom and purport to re-signify the word slut as being a positive definition of sexual agency, sexuality studies show that they often lose control of this signification in the broader community, and the social consequences remain detrimental. In this article, I trace the feminist project of re-signification of the slut back to Judith Butler and apply it to Kody Keplinger's contemporary young adult novel The DUFF. I show that this novel illustrates what can be a hard truth for feminists and feminism to accept—the tension between the feminist imperative to re-signify discourse as a sign of personal empowerment, and the reality that changing discourse relies on others (particularly men) to become allies.
期刊介绍:
Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal is a peer-reviewed journal providing a forum for the critical discussion of girlhood from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, and for the dissemination of current research and reflections on girls'' lives to a broad, cross-disciplinary audience of scholars, researchers, practitioners in the fields of education, social service and health care and policy makers. International and interdisciplinary in scope, it is committed to feminist, anti-discrimination, anti-oppression approaches and solicits manuscripts from a variety of disciplines. The mission of the journal is to bring together contributions from and initiate dialogue among perspectives ranging from medical and legal practice, ethnographic inquiry, philosophical reflection, historical investigations, literary, cultural and media research to curriculum design and policy-making. Topics addressed within the journal include girls and schooling, girls and feminism, girls and sexuality, girlhood in the context of Boyhood Studies, girls and new media and popular culture, representation of girls in different media, histories of girlhood, girls and development.