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“Of course, there have been unruly women for as long as there have been boundaries of what constitutes ‘feminine’ behavior: women who, in some way, step outside the boundaries of good womanhood, who end up being labeled too fat, too loud, too slutty, too whatever characteristic women are supposed to keep under control.”

Women Feminism Feminist Woman Womenhood

Book:Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman

Source: Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman

“Serena’s body isn’t built to emulate the look of the model in an Ann Taylor shift dress. It’s built – through an exacting and grueling regimen – to decimate her opponents. And his suggestion that the body, too, is beautiful and sexy – in spite of, or even because of, its threat to the norms of white femininity – will continue to be threatening until the standards of beauty are decentered from those of the white upper class.”

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Book:Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman

Source: Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman

“The Williams sisters had something else: each other, and their absolute dominance.”

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“Put differently, the rhetoric of Williams’ different body isn’t just sexist – it’s profoundly racist.”

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Book:Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman

Source: Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman