Perfect girls, starving daughters : the frightening new normalcy of hating your body /

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Author / Creator:	Martin, Courtney E.
Imprint:	New York : Free Press, c2007.
Description:	xiii, 330 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Body image in women. Eating disorders in women. Self-esteem in women. Body image in women. Eating disorders in women. Self-esteem in women.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6655039

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ISBN:	9780743287968 : $25.00 0743287967 : $25.00
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-310) and index.
Summary:	Draws on original research and more than one hundred interviews with patients, psychologists, and nutritionists to analyze the pervasiveness of eating disorders and body-image-related emotional challenges in today's generation of young women.

Table of Contents:

Preface
Introduction
1. Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters
2. From Good to Perfect: Feminism's Unintended Legacy
3. The Male Mirror: Her Father's Eyes
4. (Perfect) Girl Talk: Inside Today's Teenagers' Minds and Stomachs
5. Sex as a Cookie: Growing Up Hungry
6. The Revolution Still Will Not Be Televised: Pop, Hip-hop, Race, and the Media
7. What Men Want: The Truth About Attraction, Porn, and the Pursuit
8. All-or-Nothing Nation: Diets, Extreme Makeovers, and the Obesity Epidemic
9. Past the Dedication Is Disease: Athletic Obsession
10. The College Years: Body Obsession Boot Camp
11. The Real World Ain't No MTV: How the Body Becomes the Punching Bag for Post-College Disappointment
12. Spiritual Hunger
13. Stepping Through the Looking Glass: Our New Stories Resource Guide
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
Reader's Guide

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