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Some girls seem to have it all...
The top grades
The best clothes
A great body
A cute boyfriend
But they may also have...
Exhaustion
Anxiety
Eating disorders
Crippling insecurity
From grammar school girls to working women, the pressure to be perfect is spreading like a disease. These Supergirls feel the unrelenting need to succeed -- sometimes at the cost of their own happiness and sanity. A recovering Supergirl herself, Liz Funk exposes the dangerous consequences that can come from striving for perfection. By closely following five girls and interviewing nearly one hundred more, she takes us inside the Supergirl psyche, explaining the causes of this phenomenon and showing how Supergirls can let their (sleek and shiny) hair down and find some time to relax and enjoy life!
With practical advice, biting humor, and the sensitivity of someone who's been through it all, Funk's Supergirls Speak Out is the absolutely necessary companion for any girl who thinks 100 percent just isn't enough.
- Sales Rank: #2411676 in Books
- Published on: 2009-03-03
- Released on: 2009-03-03
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.44" h x .80" w x 5.50" l, .51 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 256 pages
From Publishers Weekly
First-time author Funk defines the term "supergirl" as an over-achieving young woman with a compulsive need to be the best in all areas: school, extra-curricular activities, social networking and, of course, physical appearance. As she and her fellows are discovering, however, the pressure of such all-encompassing ambition can result in exhaustion, eating disorders, emotional problems and screwed up priorities. One of Funk's 100-plus interviewees bemoans that "'when you Google me, nothing comes up. I need to have Google prowess'"; for herself, Funk confesses her chagrin over publishing her first book (this one) at the age of 20 instead of 18. Though such a young writer can't possibly tackle the complex state of 21st century feminism without reading (at the least) precocious, freelance writer Funk has done her research, and her writing is lucid and intelligent. A good deal of unnecessary ranting could have been cut, and brand name fatigue sets in early (one hopes Funk is getting kickbacks from Starbucks). Still, Funk provides some fresh insights, especially for a younger audience brought up on The Devil Wears Prada and the myth of workplace gender equality, encouraging self-awareness, reasonable priorities, and a healthy outlook.
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From Booklist
Like Sara Shandler’s Ophelia Speaks (1999), this title, written by a 19-year-old undergraduate, offers an insider’s view of what it means to be a high-achieving young woman in today’s society. In loosely organized chapters, Funk defines today’s “Supergirls,” who hold themselves to impossible standards, and she explores how typical Supergirl traits play out in young women’s lives at school, at work, in friendships, at home, and in their relationships with men. More information about how Funk researched and gathered the quotes and profiles that fill the heavily anecdotal text would have been welcome, and Funk’s youth and inexperience are clear in the somewhat disorganized, highly repetitive text. Still, the subjects’ frequently echoed frustrations powerfully underscore the book’s clear, cautionary message: young women, facing pressures to succeed at all costs from society, their families, and themselves, are pushing themselves to the breaking point. A few suggestions for change close the book, but it is the honest, urgent, intimate voices, including Funk’s own, that will stay with readers. --Gillian Engberg
Review
"Hey Supergirls, put down next month's assignment and pick up this book instead! Liz Funk is like a wise, chatty, funny big sister. She offers indispensable advice about how to stay sane in the face of seemingly endless pressures. Read this book to put your life in perspective." -- Leora Tanenbaum, author of Slut! Growing Up Female with a Bad Reputation and Catfight: Rivalries Among Women -- From Diets to Dating, From the Boardroom to the Delivery Room
"Liz Funk has written a smart, insightful and important book for every woman who thinks she has to do--and be--it all. Women of all ages will benefit from this highly readable, highly enjoyable read." -- Abby Ellin, author of Teenage Waistland: A Former Fat Kid Weighs in on Living Large, Losing Weight and How Parents Can (and Can't) Help
"Liz Funk exposes the dark side of high-achieving young women - and what lies behind their desire to be perfect - with sympathy and candor. Parents may freak out at first read but girls will say, 'Ohmigod, that is so true.' Supergirls will jump-start a conversation between generations that is long overdue." -- Laura Sessions Stepp, author of Unhooked: How Young Women Pursue Sex, Delay Love and Lose at Both
"Too many young women feel enormous pressure to attain unrealistic standards of perfection in every area of their lives. The emotional toll is often damaging -- and can be life-threatening. With Supergirls Speak Out, Liz Funk performs an invaluable service by examining this serious problem and exploring what we can do to help young women lead healthier, happier lives." -- Leslie Bennetts, author of The Feminine Mistake: Are We Giving Up Too Much?
"Liz Funk's refreshing candor, rigorous research, and dynamic, accessible tone help carry her important message to the young women who need it most." -- Janice Erlbaum, author of Girlbomb and Have You Found Her?
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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful.
"self help" is an accurate label - feminist is NOT!
By picky reader
I'll write a proper review when I feel like being in a really bad mood by reliving this book. As another reviewer wrote, I and many, many of my friends are considered perfectionist, overachieving women, but this book just isn't for or about us. The author makes sweeping generalizations and says, over and over (usually implicitly, but sometimes explicitly) that only very privileged women can be "supergirls." She says in interviews that this is not true, but her book says otherwise. (She specifically says that low-income immigrants, girls with acne, and girls who don't visit tanning salons CANNOT be supergirls, for example - and that's just the start.) I guess it shouldn't surprise me that the author paints supergirls only in terms of her own experiences, and only interviews others with nearly identical experiences. I also can't understand how the author is minoring in Women's Studies, because so much of it seems blatantly sexist and lacking the insight I've found in even introductory gender studies classes - there is certainly no concept of intersectional feminism in this book, and the author makes no room for dissenting voices on topics as basic as female sexuality. (According to Funk, only men can enjoy casual sex, but women cannot, and yes, Funk can speak for ALL women. And that's feminist how...?)
The editing is sloppy, and although there are a few places where Liz Funk absolutely shines, she pisses me off too often to redeem herself. I have hesitated to publicly write anything negative about this book, because the author herself has published articles on how wrong and mean it is to criticize a writer online - but I feel like this book deals with such an important topic so poorly that I can't be silent, plus, hey, I love talking about literature. The point is for "supergirls" to speak out, isn't it?
This is the only book that has upset me enough to actually keep a reader's journal - I just needed a place to write down all my objections.
To be fair, this book was labeled "Self Help," and I am rarely impressed by this genre. Also, to be fair, despite my privilege, I am not Funk's audience - I have already graduated from college (recently though it was), and I'm not rich enough to read this book. I took out student loans and pay my own bills, my god! I can't be a supergirl!
I hope someone else writes on this topic in a form that can be labeled Gender Studies. I'll wait till then...
9 of 13 people found the following review helpful.
Non-fiction chick lit. How groundbreaking.
By L. Rau
I snatched this title off the shelf at Border's and shelled out the 15 bucks for it, salivating with excitement to read a collection of stories about women like me, who have sacrificed peace of mind for over-achievements. I, too, have been trying to relax my over-competitiveness and perfectionism "on paper" as I enter my mid-twenties. I was a bit miffed at the pink, girly cover, since not all women are hyper feminine, but I gave her the benefit of the doubt. Maybe she just really likes the color. I was a bit weary that the author's scope may be limited to privileged, upper-middle class, white "good girls," but I thought, surely a book about overachieving women wouldn't be anything like chick lit.
Boy, was I wrong.
Within the first few pages, I had to remind myself that the author was only 19 at the time of writing it, so perhaps she didn't have the most developed perspective on the "Supegirls" issue. Perhaps I misunderstood her definition of "Supergirls." She gets one thing right: that people need to learn to enjoy their lives and not succumb to society's pressures to be perfect. A good lesson for anyone. However, when she began overgeneralizing "Supergirls" as needing to juggle perfect social calendars and being seen at all the right club scenes, I flipped. This is ridiculous. Never have I met a true, over-achieving "Supergirl" who would ever waste her time primping for the male gaze and bar-hopping or wasting a night on the town. True "Supergirls" would be embarrassed to be seen at such vapid venues. They're in their rooms getting ulcers from studying so hard, winning national scholarships, meeting foreign ambassadors, getting fellowships to prestigious programs, Photoshopping their headshots for speaking engagements, picking the perfect business suit colors to garner authority, running way too many nonprofits and organizations, practicing their 10-second personal pitches, and yes, of course, looking put-together as pie. Many of these talented girls happen to be beautiful, as is the case with that rare type of "Supergirl" drive/talent/excessiveness, but I'll be damned if they are out in clubs with babydoll dresses listening to top 40 and drinking watermelon martinis, or whatever the hell those are. And I'll be damned if all of them are colorful skirt-wearing, heterosexual-subscribing, upper-middle class, chick-lit reading, Girl Power enthusiasts. Many of these "Supergirls" are just really successful people who DO need to "stop and smell the roses," as Funk would say. Not hyper-feminized goody goody girly girls.
The objectification of the female body and the subsequent effect it has on girls (anorexia, bulimia, debilitating low self-esteem, insecurity, etc.) is a HUGE issue, but it is NOT the "Supergirl" issue. Like the "Supermom" issue, it's DIFFERENT from the intellectual/academic/professional overachieving issue. Look at the women winning Fulbrights, personally assisting Obama in their mid twenties, the valedictorians of the Ivy Leagues, the women achieving things NOT on behalf of womanhood, but on behalf of humanhood. In my mind, true "Supergirls" have bigger things to worry about than body image insecurities, as these completely fall to the wayside of academic and professional success. They exist, but they are NOT at the core of perfectionism and over-achievement.
A little more research on Funk revealed that she falls into the collective feminist voice that speaks "Wow, women really CAN be smart, beautiful and successful." Once she, and other new-wavers stop acting so surprised that women can be better-than-average, perhaps this world will be a better place for all humans, regardless of sex or gender.
Funk is clearly bright, but not brilliant with this publication. I was very upset after reading a few chapters and skimming through the rest, because I bought it based on my desire to improve my life by not being such an overachieving stressball myself. I am returning this book to Borders, today. It did not help me, at all. I continue with my struggle to relax and accept myself as not being perfect.
I predict the following types of girls will connect and identify with this book: average, hardworking girls who try REALLY hard to get good grades, get into a decent enough college, LOVE pink, look nice for the boys, are conflicted between traditional roles of women and their achievements, and seem popular on Facebook. They're not movers and shakers. They're really good conformers.
True female geniuses, overachievers, lesbians, rags-to-riches, brilliant rabble-rousers, the ones who are more humanist than feminist? These are only a few demographics that this book completely ignores. I want to hear about more about THESE women. Not autobiographical chick lit. Hyper-feminine women are only a part of the female demographic, especially the over-achieving ones.
Before I close, I'd like to mention that I skimmed some later paragraphs in search of some retribution for Funk, but instantly came across a "you/your" typo, and shut the book for the last time. That was enough for me.
Liz, if you read this, please do not hesitate to contact me regarding this review.
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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Courtesy of Teens Read Too
By TeensReadToo
What is a Supergirl?
They're the high school class president with the constantly shiny hair who applied to over twenty Ivy League schools and always brings homemade goods to every bake sale. They're the college girl involved in a million clubs who shows up five minutes before the 8 a.m. class with no signs of her late night out, followed by many more hours of studying. They're the gotta-have-it-all twenty-something who busted her butt in college and is already on the same level as women ten years older in her field.
They're any girl who has packed her schedule, keeping herself busy with volunteer activities, who always manages to look perfect, regardless of how tired, stressed, or anxious she feels.
This is the plight of the Supergirls, the slew of young women who have decided that nothing short of perfection will do. By following the stories of five overachievers from different walks of life, and interviewing almost a hundred more, this book examines the lives of these girls to find out why they feel this need for perfection, and what they can possibly do to avoid the eventual burnout.
This book disappointed me by placing most of the blame on faceless entities such as "societal conditioning," rather than offering more concrete advice to young women who may be stuck in this harmful cycle of achievement and compliment addiction. Regardless, the stories in this book were an interesting foray into the psyche of a population that is often stereotyped and ignored, for the simple reason that "they have it all; how can anything be wrong in their lives?"
Reviewed by: Allison Fraclose
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