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

Martin, Courtney E.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0425223361 ISBN 13: 9780425223369

Casa editrice: Berkley, 2008

Riassunto

Draws on original research and more than one hundred interviews with patients, psychologists, nutritionists, and others to analyze the pervasiveness of eating disorders and body-image-related emotional challenges in today's generation of young women. Reprint.

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Recensione:

“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 they struggle to find a body they can feel secure with.”—Susie Orbach, author of Fat Is a Feminist Issue

“Fresh analysis...will bring insight to a whole new group of teenagers and young women.” —Naomi Wolf

“Heartbreaking...Martin explores the forces that drive young women to sacrifice themselves on the altar of perfection.”—Publishers Weekly

L'autore:

Courtney E. Martin has written for the New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, and other publications, and received her BA from Barnard College and MA from New York University.

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• Editore: Berkley
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0425223361
• ISBN 13: 9780425223369
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 400