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by Courtney E. Martin

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.


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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.

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  • Title Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters: How the Quest for Perfection Is Harming Young Women
  • Author Courtney E. Martin
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 400
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Berkley Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 2008-09-02
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780425223369 / 0425223361
  • Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.1 x 5.4 x 1.2 in (20.57 x 13.72 x 3.05 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects Self-esteem in women, Body image in women
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008003801
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.4

Media reviews

“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

About the author

Courtney E. Martin has written for the New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, and other publications, and received her BA from Barnard College and MA from New York University.
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