Courtney Martin – Perfect Girls, or Starving Daughters?
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=1221
Author Courtney Martin lays out the principal arguments posed by her book, “Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters: The Frightening New Normalcy of Hating Your Body.”
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Courtney Martin discusses “Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters: The Frightening New Normalcy of Hating Your Body,” offering original research from the front lines of the eating disorders battlefield.
Drawing from more than 100 interviews with sufferers, psychologists, nutritionists, socio-cultural experts, and others, Martin’s expose reveals a new generation of “perfect girls” who are obsessive compulsive, over-achieving, and self-sacrificing in multiple and often dangerous ways. The result is a true call to action. – Cody’s Books
Courtney E. Martin is a writer originally from Colorado Springs, Colorado. Her book, Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters: The Frightening New Normalcy of Hating Your Body, will be published on Simon and Schuster’s Free Press in April and in the UK and Norway in May.
She writes for a range of national publications, including Newsweek, Newsday, Alternet, The Christian Science Monitor, The Village Voice, Time Out New York, Utne Reader, Women’s eNews, Poets and Writers, Publisher’s Weekly, BUST, Bitch, and ReadyMade, among others. Courtney is also a contributing blogger for Crucial Minutiae and Feministing.
Courtney’s been honored with the ChoiceUSA Setting the Message Straight Award, the Elie Wiesel Prize in Ethics, and fellowships from the Puffin Foundation, the Clark Foundation, and the Oral History Association. In addition, she is a Woodhull fellow.
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you like hurting …
you like hurting peoples feelings! get a life! dont take someones elses!
Thats what you can do with nasty words like that!
efficiency?
efficiency?
My earlier comment …
My earlier comment still stands …The fact still remains that 80% of people who actually have committed suicide are men.
Women attempt …
Women attempt suicide more often than men. Men complete suicide more often than women.
she’s better than …
she’s better than someone like you deserves man.
beautifully written …
beautifully written. poignantly read.
she looks fat and …
she looks fat and ugly- fugly
y do people always …
y do people always fight n u tube?!! sooo sad!
The peacemakers,the …
The peacemakers,the dogooders and take ourselves very,very seriously….LiGTHEN UP! YOU WILL LIVE LONGER-NEUROTIC AMERICANS-SPANISH PEOPLE SMOKE MORE THAN CHIMNEYS;EAT ;EAT AND EAT ALL SORTS OF STUFF AND LIVE 2 YEARS LONGER ON THE AVERAGE THAN AMERICANS!
you’re the dumbest …
you’re the dumbest person alive
The words of an intellectual!
you’re the dumbest …
you’re the dumbest person alive.
Shes a feminist, by …
Shes a feminist, by definition shes sexist.
shut up.
shut up.
wonder what she …
wonder what she looks like naked?
“starving for a god …
“starving for a god.” boy does that hit home. even if there isn’t one there will always be that insatiable hunger…that emptiness that we all try to ignore. its utterly terrifying.
hi there.
i just …
hi there.
i just wanted to say thanks to the people who uploaded this & thanks to courtney martin for mentioning that young successful girls and women DO have problems. usually people who mention this do it for the wrong reason, i.e. antifeminist backlash.
at the moment …
at the moment egalitarians (i decided to start using this word instead of “feminists”, people understand it better) concentrate a lot on the problems of boys and young men, many of whom have problems at school. though this IS a very very important issue it is important to also think about those who supposedly do well in society.
I personally (and …
I personally (and Rivier615 will kill me for this) blame capitalism
no seriously, i believe that it is very important that we all (no matter what gender) do not strive too much for success at work over all other values.
and now back to work ….
this looks …
this looks like she just the whole vid, did u do that while suking on daddy….shave the mustache!
in college,obama …
in college,obama was known as being very rude and arrogant.That’s from people who actually interacted with him in daily life,not the far away image you get on your tv screen.You’re being played like a chump.
Hey Counrtney. Just …
Hey Counrtney. Just read your article where you are worshipping at the throne of King Obama. As you and the rest of America gets butt my this guy, I will just laugh. You and your generation needs to have their face ground down into the mud for being so stupid. Welcome to USSR and Obama is no JFK. JFK hated the commies and the USSR. As for his true nature, Obama is really a black Bush and Jimmy Carter rolled up into a big asshole.
Yes, but women …
Yes, but women attempt suicide much more frequently. Men have a higher percentage of completed suicides for those that are attempted. Arguing over who has it worse–men or women–is unhelpful and demeaning to everyone who is suffering, regardless of gender.
what does neurotic …
what does neurotic mean?
She is so beatiful! …
She is so beatiful! Her book is very mature. I am a guy with 2 neurotic sisters, and courtney just showed me how to deal with them. Thank God one is doing ok, one mo to go. Love from fareham,uk
i did….
i did….