Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters

Zusatztext A long overdue takedown of our culture's unhealthy obsession with physical appearancesand what it's doing to our kids. Arianna Huffington Smart and spiritedthought-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 analysiswill bring insight to a whole new group of teenagers and young women. Naomi Wolf HeartbreakingMartin explores the forces that drive young women to sacrifice themselves on the altar of perfection. Publishers Weekly Informationen zum Autor Courtney E. Martin Klappentext Through extensive research and hair-raising anecdotes! a journalist exposes the variety and extremes of the epidemic of eating disorders among young women and issues a wake-up call that cannot be ignored. Zusammenfassung 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.

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Courtney E. Martin

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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.