Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters: A Talk by Courtney Martin

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Date: Monday, February 23, 2009
Time: 5:00 pm
Location: BLUU Auditorium (Brown Lupton University Union)at Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX

Award-winning author and Feministing.com contributing editor Courtney E. Martin will explore how young women today have come dangerously define success as "effortless perfection." Drawing on her critically acclaimed book- "Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters"-she will discuss how disordered eating, food, and fitness obsession, and anxiety disorders have become normalized among today's college women.

Ms. Martin's talk is sponsored by TCU Women's Studies Program.

Posted by Megan O. - February 03, 2009, at 10:44AM | in Body Image

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