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The Frightening New Normalcy of Hating Your Body
Free Press
April 2007
On Sale: April 17, 2007
352 pages
ISBN: 0743287967
EAN: 9780743287968
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
An emerging new talent, Courtney E. Martin is the voice of a
young generation so obsessed with being thin that their
consciousness is always focused inward, to the detriment of
their careers and relationships. Health and wellness, joy
and love have come to seem ancillary compared to the desire
for a perfect body. Even though eating disorders first
became generally known about twenty-five years ago, they
have burgeoned, worsened, become more difficult to treat and
more fatal (50 percent of anorexics who do not respond to
treatment die within ten years). Consider these statistics: * Ten million Americans suffer from eating disorders. * Seventy million people worldwide suffer from eating
disorders. * More than half of American women between the ages of
eighteen and twenty-five would pre fer to be run over by a
truck or die young than be fat. * More than two-thirds would rather be mean or stupid. * Eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of
any psychological disease. In Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters, Martin offers original
research from the front lines of the eating disorders
battlefield. Drawn from more than a hundred interviews with
sufferers, psychologists, nutritionists, sociocultural
experts, and others, her exposé reveals a new generation of
"perfect girls" who are obsessive-compulsive, overachieving,
and self-sacrificing in multiple -- and often dangerous --
new ways. Young women are "told over and over again," Martin
notes, "that we can be anything. But in those affirmations,
assurances, and assertions was a concealed pressure, an
unintended message: You are special. You are worth
something. But you need to be perfect to live up to that
specialness." With its vivid and often heartbreaking personal stories,
Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters has the power both to
shock and to educate. It is a true call to action and cannot
be missed.
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