The Frightening New Normalcy of Hating Your Body
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Courtney E. Martin is a writer, teacher and filmmaker living in Brooklyn. She is currently working on a book on her generation's obsession with food and fitness, "Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters," which will be published by Free Press in spring of 2007. You can read more about her work at www.courtneyemartin.com.
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