Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters (Paperback)

By Courtney E. Martin
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Description

This eye-opening look at twenty-first century culture and its impact on women reveals how food and weight obsession, driven in no small part by images of celebrities openly wasting away, threatens a new generation of girls as the feminist exhortation that "you can do anything" is twisted into "you must do everything." It also inspires readers to consider what wonderful things might happen if the madness stopped once and for all.

About the Author

Courtney E. Martin, M.A., received degrees from Barnard College and New York University.

Praise for Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters…

“A long overdue takedown of our culture’s unhealthy obsession with physical appearances—and what it’s doing to our kids.”
—Arianna Huffington

“Smart and spirited…thought-provoking reading.”
—New York Times

“An engaging and heartbreaking account of the tragic circumstances girls and women find themselves in today as they struggle to find a body they can feel secure with.”
—Susie Orbach, author of Fat Is a Feminist Issue

“Fresh analysis…will bring insight to a whole new group of teenagers and young women.”
—Naomi Wolf

“Heartbreaking…Martin explores the forces that drive young women to sacrifice themselves on the altar of perfection.”
—Publishers Weekly

Product Details ISBN-10: 0425223361
ISBN-13: 9780425223369
Published: Berkley Trade, 09/01/2008
Pages: 400
Language: English