Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters: The Frightening New Normalcy of Hating Your Body

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Courtney E. Martin, M.A., author of  Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters: The Frightening New Normalcy of Hating Your Body (Simon & Schuster, Free Press).

Courtney E. Martin, 27, is the award-winning author of Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters: The Frightening New Normalcy of Hating Your Body (Simon & Schuster, Free Press).

Courtney is a widely-read freelance journalist and blogger. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Newsweek, the Christian Science Monitor, metro—the largest circulation paper in the world, Alternet, The Huffington Post, The Village Voice, Time Out New York, Utne Reader, Women's eNews, Poets & Writers, Publisher’s Weekly, off our backs, BUST and Bitch Magazine, among others. She blogs regulary for feministing, Crucial Minutiae, and Women in Media and News. 

Courtney is currently an adjunct professor of gender studies at Hunter College.  Visit her website.