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The Slutwalk Movement: A Study In Transnational Feminist Activism, Joetta L. Carr
The Slutwalk Movement: A Study In Transnational Feminist Activism, Joetta L. Carr
Journal of Feminist Scholarship
In the past two years the term "slut" ricocheted through the North American media and showed up on signs and banners on every continent as young feminists and their allies launched a series of demonstrations under the name of SlutWalks. In January 2011, a Toronto police officer told students at York University that if women wanted to avoid rape they should not dress like sluts. This incident sparked international outrage, with protests spreading quickly throughout the world, and revealed the misogyny and victim-blaming vitriol that characterize contemporary patriarchal culture. In the wake of the global SlutWalk movement, important questions have …