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The paradox of the subway shirt -- Why we wear revealing clothes -- You should have seen the flappers -- Growing up with gendered dress codes -- Growing up with image-based sexual abuse: revenge porn and deepfakes -- Growing up blamed for sexual harassment and assault -- Sexy selfies -- The unsexy side of sexy selfies -- The cost of being instafamous -- When selling your sexy selfies is healing -- When your monetized sexy selfies are stolen
"In Sexy Selfie Nation, Leora Tanenbaum demystifies the reasons many young women wear racy and revealing clothes, share photos of themselves in risqué poses, and post twerking TikToks--yet also wear oversized 'subway shirts' in public to protect themselves from unwanted sexual attention"--