| Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters: How the Quest for Perfection is Harming Young Women Contributor(s): Martin, Courtney E. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0425223361 ISBN-13: 9780425223369 Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $22.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2008 Annotation: Through extensive research and hair-raising anecdotes, a journalist exposes the variety and extremes of the epidemic of eating disorders among young women and issues a wake-up call that cannot be ignored. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Psychopathology - Eating Disorders - Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory - Social Science | Women's Studies |
| Dewey: 306.4 |
| LCCN: 2008003801 |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 5.4" W x 8.1" (0.75 lbs) 400 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |