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Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters: The Frightening New Normalcy of Hating Your Body
"Why does every one of my friends have an eating disorder, or, at the very least, a screwed-up approach to food and fitness?" writes journalist Courtney E. Martin. The new world culture of eating disorders and food and body issues affects virtually all -- not just a rare few -- of today's young wome... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2007 -
The New Better Off: Reinventing the American Dream
Are we living the good life-and what defines 'good', anyway? Americans today are constructing a completely different framework for success than their parents' generation, using new metrics that TEDWomen speaker and columnist Courtney Martin has termed collectively the "New Better Off". The New Bette... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Learning in Public: Lessons for a Racially Divided America from My Daughter's School
One mother&’s story of enrolling her daughter in a local public school, and the surprising, necessary lessons she learned with her neighbors.From the time Courtney E. Martin strapped her daughter, Maya, to her chest for long walks, she was curious about Emerson Elementary, a public school down the s... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Do It Anyway
If you care about social change but hate feel-good platitudes, Do It Anyway is the book for you. Courtney Martin's rich profiles of the new generation of activists dig deep, to ask the questions that really matter: How do you create a meaningful life? Can one person even begin to make a difference i... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2010 -
Project Rebirth: Survival and the Strength of the Human Spirit from 9/11 Survivors
Each year, every year, on the anniversary of the attacks, Jim Whitaker and his film crew interviewed eight people who were directly affected by the events of 9/11. They used five of these subjects and their words as the basis for the documentary Rebirth, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festiva... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
Click: When We Knew We Were Feminists
When did you know you were a feminist? Whether it happened at school, at work, while watching TV, or reading a book, many of us can point to a particular moment when we knew we were feminists. In Click, editors Courtney E. Martin and J. Courtney Sullivan bring us a range of women-including Jessica V... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2010 -
Project Rebirth
Written in conjunction with the documentary Rebirth, a full decade in the making, an uplifting look at the lives of eight individuals whose lives were forever changed by the events of September 11, 2001.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
Renaissance Shakespeare/Shakespeare Renaissances: Proceedings of the Ninth World Shakespeare Congress
by Stanley Wells • Sukanta Chaudhuri • Randall Martin • Brian Walsh • Ros King • James J. Marino • Graham Holderness • Barry Freeman • Shaul Bassi • Ann Jennalie Cook • Emma Depledge • Jean-Christophe Mayer • Patrick Lonergan • Courtney Lehmann • Sharon O'Dair • Poonam Trivedi • Supriya Chaudhuri • Darryl Chalk • M. A. Katritzky • Jill L. Levenson • Margaret Shewring • Hersh Zeifman • Robert Darcy • Joel Rodgers • Atsuhiko Hirota • Kimberly R. West • Richard Fotheringham • Eleanor Collins • Martin Hilský • Vlasta Gallerová • Karel Kríž • Robert Sturua • Galz Engler • Madalina Nicolaescu • Kaori Kobayashi • Zeno Ackermann • Tina Krontiris • Emily Oliver • Carla Della Gatta • Cristiane Busato Smith • Anna Cetera • Bi-Qi Beatrice LeiSelected contributions to the Ninth World Shakespeare Congress, which took place in July 2011 in Prague, represent the contemporary state of Shakespeare studies in thirty-eight countries worldwide. Apart from readings of Shakespeare’s plays and poems, more than forty chapters map Renaissance context... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014