Author of "Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters" speaks here Feb. 23

Fort Worth, TX

2/16/2009

Award-winning author Courtney E. Martin will speak Monday, Feb. 23 at 5 p.m. in the Brown Lupton University Union. Her topic is "How the quest for perfection is harming young women." Drawing on her critically acclaimed book Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters, she will discuss how disordered eating, food and fitness obsession, along with anxiety disorders, have become normalized among today's college women.

The program is sponsored by the TCU Women's Studies Program.  For more information, e-mail k.steele@tcu.edu. or phone 817-257-6255.