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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

aA long overdue takedown of our cultureas unhealthy obsession with physical appearancesaand what itas doing to our kids.a<br> aArianna Huffington <br> aSmart and spiriteda]thought-provoking reading.a <br>a New York Times <br>aAn 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.a<br> aSusie Orbach, author of Fat Is a Feminist Issue <br> aFresh analysisa]will bring insight to a whole new group of teenagers and young women.a <br>aNaomi Wolf <br> aHeartbreakinga]Martin explores the forces that drive young women to sacrifice themselves on the altar of perfection.a <br>a Publishers Weekly

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 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 ?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 aA long overdue takedown of our cultureas unhealthy obsession with physical appearancesaand what itas doing to our kids.a aArianna Huffington aSmart and spiriteda]thought-provoking reading.a a New York Times aAn 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.a aSusie Orbach, author of Fat Is a Feminist Issue aFresh analysisa]will bring insight to a whole new group of teenagers and young women.a aNaomi Wolf aHeartbreakinga]Martin explores the forces that drive young women to sacrifice themselves on the altar of perfection.a a Publishers Weekly Courtney Martin's book, Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters, is a courageous, intelligent, warm, and insightful deconstruction of the complicated experience of becoming a woman for this generation. She tells a new story, from the inside looking out, at the ongoing issues that anyone tuned into the media or in relationship to a young woman sees but may not understand. Her relentlessly honest and exposing account of interviews, research, and personal experience reveals a daunting reality: the self-destructive ways women cope with the impossible pressures and expectations of a society obsessed with achievement and perfection. Anyone wanting to know the truth of how our vital, brilliant, talented young female generation is slowly being eroded, and also wants to travel the road to re-empowerment, must read this. -- Ellen M. Boeder, M.A., L.P.C., primary therapist, The Eating Disorder Center of Denver For health professionals, Courtney Martin gives an indispensable guide into food behavior. Using compelling personal insights, she effortlessly conveys the tangle of nutritional health and disordered eating. Stories of dieting daughters and young women seeking their worth in weight are told with uncommon wit and wisdom. Tragicomic accounts of Martin's college experience combine with sharp analysis that anyone can enjoy and employ, from dietitians and physicians dealing with full blown eating disorders to parents and their children who face the impossible paradox of perfect girls and starving daughters. -- Sharron Dalton, Professor of Nutrition and Registered Dietitian, New York University and author of Our Overweight Children: What Parents, Schools, and Communities Can Do About the Fatness Epidemic With a sharp analysis communicated through heartbreaking stories, Martin exposes how hard most women have it these days when it comes to being secure in their physical appearance. Martin delves into the psychological, emotional and social side effects of a generation gone perfect. Anyone who has ever felt that twinge of not being good enough, skinny enough, pretty enough for the world at large should sit down with this book and see how deep the rabbit hole goes. We can only begin to act on our own behalf once we see how comprehensive this social disorder is -- Martin makes it clear that the time to act is now! -- Adrienne Maree Brown, Executive Director, The Ruckus Society Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters is a courageous, intelligent, and provocative exploration of the matrix of psychosocial forces that influence the development of contemporary young women. Thoughtfully researched and rich with trenchant insights, compelling interviews, and eye-opening anecdotes, I will recommend it without reservation to patients and colleagues alike. Ms. Martin is to be commended for the lucid and astute perspective she brings to these complicated but essential matters. -- Brad Sachs, PhD, psychologist and author of When No One Understands, The Good Enough Teen, and The Good Enough Child These beautifully written, sensitive, and empathetic stories tell the heart-wrenching truth about the critical, harmful way women and girls regard themselves -- with normalized self-hate. Martin gives voice to so many who are suffering, many whose self-hatred has insidiously become part of everyday conversation. She offers the reader deep insight based on extensive research and authentic interviews, and demands that we stop settling for self-hate. Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters will undoubtedly change lives. -- Dr. Robin Stern, feminist psychoanalyst and author of The Gaslight Effect Reading this book, I said to myself, 'If only.' If only girls were demanding applause instead of starving for food, thirsting for knowledge instead of hungering for support, and knowing how perfectly perfect they are in every way instead of letting doubt run rampant. Fortunately, Courtney E. Martin is here to move women in the right direction. She writes about body image with passion, intelligence, savvy, and curiosity. Best of all, readers will know that this will be just the first of Martin's many worthy reads. -- Wendy Shanker, author of The Fat Girl's Guide to Life Martin presents an inspirational collection of research and stories about the problem young girls are tormented by in today's society. No ethnic group is excluded from this epidemic. Perfect girls are not anorexic daughters. The desire to be thin is masking the true underlying problem -- the desire to be loved and acknowledged. This book is an invaluable tool for all of us. A MUST READ! -- Laura E. Corio, MD, author of The Change Before the Change It was INSPIRING, NECESSARY, and REVOLUTIONARY for me to read this book. Courtney E. Martin has written one of the most important, comprehensive looks into the malnourished souls of today's girls and women. You owe it to yourself to read this book and give one to every daughter, mother, and woman you know. -- Jessica Weiner, advice columnist and author of Life Doesn't Begin 5 Pounds from Now Original, passionate, and important, Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters shines a light on a troubling trend in young women's development. Martin's gripping stories give us a new way to understand the plight of the struggling young women we love, if not a new way to think about ourselves. -- Rachel Simmons, author of Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls 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

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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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