Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters : How the Quest for Perfection Is Harming Young Women
by Martin, Courtney E.Edition: Reprint
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Pub. Date: 2008-09-02
Publisher(s): Berkley Trade
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Summary
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.
Author Biography
Courtney E. Martin, M.A., received degrees from Barnard College and New York University.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. xi |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters | p. 17 |
| From Good to Perfect: Feminism's Unintended Legacy | p. 37 |
| The Male Mirror: Her Father's Eyes | p. 65 |
| (Perfect) Girl Talk: Inside Today's Teenagers' Minds and Stomachs | p. 92 |
| Sex as a Cookie: Growing Up Hungry | p. 114 |
| The Revolution Still Will Not Be Televised: Pop, Hip-hop, Race, and the Media | p. 141 |
| What Men Want: The Truth About Attraction, Porn, and the Pursuit | p. 168 |
| All-or-Nothing Nation: Diets, Extreme Makeovers, and the Obesity Epidemic | p. 194 |
| Past the Dedication Is Disease: Athletic Obsession | p. 221 |
| The College Years: Body Obsession Boot Camp | p. 245 |
| The Real World Ain't No MTV: How the Body Becomes the Punching Bag for Post-College Disappointment | p. 268 |
| Spiritual Hunger | p. 292 |
| Stepping Through the Looking Glass: Our New Stories | p. 316 |
| Resource Guide | p. 337 |
| Notes | p. 343 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 361 |
| Index | p. 363 |
| Readers Guide | p. 379 |
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