Courtney E. Martin

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http://www.courtneyemartin.com/

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Nonfiction, Social Sciences, Women & Gender Studies

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Courtney E. Martin is a writer, teacher, and speaker, living in Brooklyn.

She is a widely sought-after speaker, having spoken at over 50 colleges, universities, and institutions over the past few years. Courtney has also been on Good Morning America, the TODAY Show, the O’Reilly Factor, CNN, and MSNBC, among other major media outlets. She was in the final three for the Washington Post’s Next Great American Pundit Contest.

Courtney’s first book, Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters: How the Quest for Perfection is Harming Young Women was awarded a Books for a Better Life nomination and led her to speak at colleges and universities across the nation. Seal Press published her first anthology, co-edited with J. Courtney Sullivan, entitled CLICK: Whe...more Courtney E. Martin is a writer, teacher, and speaker, living in Brooklyn.

She is a widely sought-after speaker, having spoken at over 50 colleges, universities, and institutions over the past few years. Courtney has also been on Good Morning America, the TODAY Show, the O’Reilly Factor, CNN, and MSNBC, among other major media outlets. She was in the final three for the Washington Post’s Next Great American Pundit Contest.

Courtney’s first book, Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters: How the Quest for Perfection is Harming Young Women was awarded a Books for a Better Life nomination and led her to speak at colleges and universities across the nation. Seal Press published her first anthology, co-edited with J. Courtney Sullivan, entitled CLICK: When We Knew We Were Feminists. Courtney also co-wrote the life story of AIDS activist Marvelyn Brown, called The Naked Truth: Young, Beautiful and (HIV) Positive.

She is also a widely-read freelance journalist and editor at Feministing.com. She is a Senior Correspondent for The American Prospect Online and her work has appeared in the New York Times, Newsweek, the Christian Science Monitor, Glamour, and a variety of anthologies, among other publications.

In addition, Courtney consults with social justice organizations throughout the nation, including the Ms. Foundation for Women, the National Council for Research on Women, the Women’s Funding Network, The International Museum of Women, and The Women’s Therapy Centre Institute. She contributed to the Shriver Report, released by the Center for American Progress last fall.

She was awarded the Elie Wiesel Prize in Ethics and a residency at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center. Courtney has an M.A. from the Gallatin School at New York University in writing and social change and a B.A. from Barnard College in political science and sociology. Courtney also founded The Secret Society for Creative Philanthropy.

When she isn’t working, which is not nearly enough of the time, she is walking in Prospect Park, watching depressing documentaries, or creating unselfconscious dance parties with her amazing friends.(less)

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Average rating: 3.74 · 1,003 ratings · 218 reviews · 8 distinct works

	Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters: The Frightening New Normalcy of Hating Your Body 3.74 avg rating — 532 ratings — published 2007 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Click: When We Knew We Were Feminists by Courtney E. Martin (Editor), J. Courtney Sullivan (Editor) 3.69 avg rating — 182 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Do It Anyway: The New Generation of Activists 3.76 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Project Rebirth: Survival and the Strength of the Human Spirit from 9/11 Survivors by Courtney E. Martin, Robin Stern, Laural Merlington (Narrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	The Naked Truth: Young, Beautiful, and (HIV) Positive by Marvelyn Brown, Courtney E. Martin, Courtney Martin 3.75 avg rating — 168 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Ballots for Belva: The True Story of a Woman's Race for the Presidency by Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen (Goodreads Author), Courtney A. Martin (Goodreads Author), Courtney E. Martin (Illustrations) 4.03 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2008	My rating:
	Project Rebirth: Survival and the Strength of the Human Spirit from 9/11 Survivors by Robin Stern, Courtney E. Martin, Courtney E. Martin 3.48 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Project Rebirth: Survival and the Strength of the Human Spirit from 9/11 Survivors by Robin Stern, Courtney E. Martin 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011 — 4 editions	My rating: