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summer reading

anyone reading anything good? I just picked up:

Perfectionism, eating disorders, and body image

Hey all,

I'm reading this really thought-provoking book for our PBCSR assignment called Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters: The Frightening New Normalcy of Hating Your Body.  The author is Courtney Martin, and its a really fantastic read if you're interested in the topic!  Here's an excerpt:

“My friends and I, girls and young women across the nation (and even, I have learned, across the world), harbou black holes at the center of our beings.  We, the perfect girls, try to fill these gaping holes with food, blue ribbons, sexual attention, trendy clothes, but no matter how hard we try, they remain.  We have called this insatiable hunger by many different names—ambition, drive, pride—but in truth it is a fundamental distrust that we deserve to be on this earth in the shape we are in.  A perfect girl must always be a starving daughter, because there is never enough—never enough accomplishment.  Never enough control.  Never enough perfection” (2007, p. 5)

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--A

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