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A review by alleeme
Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters: The Frightening New Normalcy of Hating Your Body by Courtney E. Martin
2.0
I can't explain how this book annoyed me. In her intro Martin talks about how everyone she mentioned the book to while she was writing it told her, "That's been done." I do think there is more to say about the relationship between young women today, the pressure of “perfection”, and how the outlet for stress and self-hatred seems to so often be our bodies.
Still, the whole thing seems much more like a personal memoir than I was expecting, and though I suppose I technically fit into the same demographic as Martin (white, middle to upper-middle class, college education, Mom always on a diet, middle America blah blah blah) I still felt very distant from the text and unable to relate. And mostly I just found it a bit too whiney to enjoy or be enlightened by it.
Still, the whole thing seems much more like a personal memoir than I was expecting, and though I suppose I technically fit into the same demographic as Martin (white, middle to upper-middle class, college education, Mom always on a diet, middle America blah blah blah) I still felt very distant from the text and unable to relate. And mostly I just found it a bit too whiney to enjoy or be enlightened by it.