Stories by Courtney E. Martin

Courtney E. Martin is a writer, teacher, and speaker living in Brooklyn. She is also the author of Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters: How the Quest for Perfection is Harming Young Women and Do It Anyway: The New Generation of Activists. You can read more about her work at www.courtneyemartin.com.

Letter to My Mother

Posted on: May 11, 2006, Source: AlterNet

You were right about many things, but feminism doesn't have to be either sappy or serious.

Paradox of the Perfect Girl

Posted on: Mar 28, 2006, Source: AlterNet

While overachieving girls are knocking on the front doors of America's best colleges, admission officers are letting their slacker brothers slip in the back door.

One Big Fat Lie

Posted on: Mar 1, 2006, Source: AlterNet

America is allegedly in the midst of an obesity epidemic, but our obsession with weight is the real disease.

The Women's Room?

Posted on: Aug 22, 2005, Source: Women's eNews

One of America's oldest domestic violence shelters has opened a gender-neutral search for a new director -- and hired a man in the interim. Some feminists are far from happy.

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