Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters: How the Quest for Perfection Is Harming Young Women by Courtney E. Martin

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

Courtney E. Martin

382 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction feminism psychology challenging informative inspiring medium-paced
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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 exhortat...

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