Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters: How the Quest for Perfection is Harming Young Women

Author: Courtney E. MartinPaperback:Publisher: BerkleyISBN 10: 0425223361ISBN 13: 978-0425223369Hardcover:Publisher: Free PressISBN 10: 9780743287968ISBN 13: 978-0743287968This 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. Review “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 t