Perfect Girls – Book Talk

Parent of girls take note of this author discussion happening, Wednesday, February 19, at 7:00 p.m. in the McCullough Social Space, Middlebury College. The talk is open and appropriate for both parents and teenagers.

Award-winning author Courtney E. Martin will explore how women today have come to dangerously define success as “effortless perfection.” Drawing on her critically acclaimed book Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters, she will argue that disordered eating, food and fitness obsession, and anxiety disorders have become normal among today’s college women. Further, she will sound a call to action to women on campus to settling for self-hate and start changing the world.