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| View Larger Image | Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls | Paperbackby Mary Pipher (Author), Ruth Ross (Designer)
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| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | Riverhead Trade | | Edition: | 1st Edition | | Page Count: | 304 Pages | | Publication Date: | August 01, 2005 | | Sales Rank: | 65,179th |
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Product Description
The phenomenal #1 New York Times bestseller. More than 1.5 million copies sold. Now available from Riverhead. This is the groundbreaking work that poses one of the most provocative questions of a generation: Why are American adolescent girls falling prey to depression, eating disorders, suicide attempts, and dangerously low self-esteem? Dr. Pipher posits that it's America's sexist, look-obsessed "girl-poisoning" culture-one in which girls are constantly struggling to find their true selves. In Reviving Ophelia, these girls' uncensored voices are heard from the front lines of adolescence. Personal and painfully honest, this is a compassionate call to arms, offering strategies with which to revive these Ophelias' lost senses of self. |
Amazon.com Review
At adolescence, says Mary Pipher, "girls become 'female impersonators' who fit their whole selves into small, crowded spaces." Many lose spark, interest, and even IQ points as a "girl-poisoning" society forces a choice between being shunned for staying true to oneself and struggling to stay within a narrow definition of female. Pipher's alarming tales of a generation swamped by pain may be partly informed by her role as a therapist who sees troubled children and teens, but her sketch of a tougher, more menacing world for girls often hits the mark. She offers some prescriptions for changing society and helping girls resist. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 329 reviews)
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Very good product by A. Segovia  5 Stars
October 26, 2009
This was sent out quickly and was in the exact promised condition. Would buy from this merchant again
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Great read!! by Ella Z (San Jose, California) 5 Stars
September 03, 2009
We live in a world where conflicting messages, especially from the media, "brainwash" our adolescent girls. Reviving Ophelia is written by a psychologist, Mary Pipher, who is great at providing the facts and the consequences that go with these conflicting messages. The book is divided into chapters about the different issues that adolescent girls go through, and how we as a society must change what these young minds are exposed to. This is a great read expecially for women. This book opened my eyes to the exploitation that young women go through, that kind of became a part of everyone's daily lives. I also recommend this book for men so that they are more aware of their own actions and how it affects the women in their lives.
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Very happy with this seller! by MSW Student (NJ)  4 Stars
August 10, 2009
I was so impressed with how quickly this book arrived--within a week. It was brand new!
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You'd be better off roughing it by Montelle Kline  1 Stars
August 07, 2009
I am a 16 year old female who grew up in the 1990's. I had to read this book as a summer reading assignment,and deeply regreted it. I should have just looked up the summary online. This book is slightly accurate, but for most of the adolescent population is humongously off. I wanted to practically scream throught most of the book. I may just be ranting, and therefor being oversensitive at the moment but, have you noticed, she's telling about how girls are pressured to look pretty and girly...and what do you know she puts a blonde-haired, blue eyed girl on the cover. -sigh- That was oversensitivity...sorry. We kind of need to go through these tough times now, because once we get older, it'll get harder to grow a thick skin against others who don't want the best for us. Consider it like getting your ears pierced. As painful as it seems now, it'll hurt more if it is done older. --Dani (on my mom's account)
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A Teenage Girl's Review by fiction book maven (USA) 5 Stars
August 03, 2009
For me, this book told me nothing that I didn't already know. I found the book to be very factual. With teenage girls everything is subjective to emotions. But more importantly is that parents know that the biggest influence is going to be society.
Some reviewers say that she didn't go into enough detail, or they nit-picked instances where they disagreed with one of her judgment calls. I think that the way she delt with the cases is almost beside the point. I think that what she really did was educate clueless parents (and, yes, they are everywhere) what their kids and their environment is like.
The fact that she failed to mention any ways to cultivate healthy relationships with daughters from the start hurt her book. I think that there are definite ways to prevent relationships from getting extremely tenuous. I think that she let some of the parents off easy in some cases because she was more concerned with improving the given situation; however, when she said all girls what to hear is, "We love you, but you must do as we say," was the one thing that all parents need to know. That is also, sadly, the one thing parents don't always do. When I have friends that have gotten into drugs and go to raves the one thing I always hear them say is, "Well, it's not like my Mom/Dad cares where I am."
I thought that this book was insightful and I found myself agreeing with a lot of her observations. I understand that some of her opinions were very controversial, but I think that those are really for an entirely different discussion. The meaning of the book was well communicated and accurate.
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| Ophelia Speaks : Adolescent Girls Write About Their Search for Self
by Sara Shandler (Author)
At age sixteen, Sara Shandler read Mary Pipher'sReviving Ophelia, the national bestseller that candidly explored the unique issues that challenge girls in their struggle toward womanhood. Moved by Pipher's insight yet driven to hear the unfiltered voices of today's adolescent girls, Shandler yearned to speak for herself, and to provide a forum for other Ophelias to do so as well. A poignant collection of original pieces selected from more than eighthundred contributions, Ophelia Speaks ...
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