Fast Girls: Teenage Tribes and the Myth of the Slut

In a study with a feminist perspective, the author explores the archetype of the high school "slut" in American society, revealing how it is a type of urban legend that does not reflect the reality of women's lives.

Emily White, a freelance writer, was the editor of The Stranger, an alternative weekly newspaper in Seattle. She has also been a contributing editor to the Web site OpenLetters.net and a Stegner fellow in the fiction program at Stanford University. Her work has appeared in Spin Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, The Village Voice, Nest, and L.A. Weekly. White lives in Seattle, Washington, where she is the writer in residence at Richard Hugo House.