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Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
enlarge	Authors: Mary Phd Pipher, Mary Pipher Publisher: Ballantine Books Category: Book List Price: ~~$7.99~~ Buy Used: $2.70 You Save: $5.29 (66%) New (9) Used (23) from $2.70 Media: Mass Market Paperback Number Of Items: 1 Pages: 370 Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4 Dimensions (in): 7 x 4.1 x 1.1 ISBN: 0345418786 Dewey Decimal Number: 305.2352 EAN: 9780345418784 ASIN: 0345418786 Publication Date: October 1, 2002 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Shipping: Expedited shipping available Shipping: International shipping available Condition: Publisher: BALLANTINE BOOKSbrDate of Publication: 2002brBinding: PAPERBACKbrCondition: GoodbrDescription: 0345418786 LIGHT WEAR TO OUTSIDE EDGE COVER. SM CHUNK OF TOP LAYER ON BACK COVER IS MISSING. PAGES ARE CLEAN, CRISP AND WHITE. NO MARKS, RIPS OR FOLDS.

Editorial Reviews: Product Description bTHREE YEARS ON THE iNEW YORK TIMES/i BESTSELLER LISTbrAND MORE THAN 1.5 MILLION COPIES SOLDbr/bbrWhen iReviving Ophelia/i was first published nearly a decade ago, the response was extraordinary#8211;and Dr. Mary Pipher became one of the most sought-after speakers in the country. She posed the provocative question: Why are American adolescent girls falling prey to depression, eating disorders, and suicide attempts at an alarming rate? The answer hit a nerve. We live in a look-obsessed, sexist #8220;girl-poisoning#8221; culture. And despite the advances of feminism, girls continue to struggle to find their true selves. brbrHere are girls#8217; unmuted voices from the front lines of adolescence, personal and painfully honest. By laying bare their harsh day-to-day reality, iReviving Ophelia/i issues a call to arms and offers parents compassion, strength, and strategies with which to revive these Ophelias#8217; lost sense of self.bibr/i/b

Customer Reviews: Read 11 more reviews... Does Ophelia NEED to be revived? April 1, 2004 3 out of 48 found this review helpful This is the stupidest book I have ever read- including Dr. Seuss! I think that Mary Pipher has some childhood issues that need to be worked out, because she stereotypes girls at a certian age as being something they usually aren't. I really can't say that it was worth the time I spent reading it. An important look at societal pressures on adolescent girls December 3, 2003 12 out of 13 found this review helpful This book is a much-needed first step in looking at the effects of modern society on young girls. Why do I call it a first step? While it is a very insightful book, the sample of girls Dr. Pipher includes is not large enough or diverse enough. Throughout the book, there is a general lack of attention to girls of color - African Americans, Asian Americans, Native Americans, Latin Americans, etc. The statements Pipher makes in her book are very, very important, but for the most part they take into consideration only the experiences of white girls. Societal pressures take different forms for girls of varied ethnic backgrounds, and these differences need to be acknowledged in order to conceptualize modern American culture.pNevertheless, Reviving Ophelia is a book I would highly recommend, and not only to adolescent girls and their parents. All of American society, and Western society in general, needs to be made aware of what it is doing to its female youth. Adolescent boys, too, should read this, as well as adults that do not have children. These people, too, send messages to our young women, and therefore need to become conscious of what the effects of those messages are. Dr. Pipher uses the stories of her own clients to paint a vivid picture of the environment our young girls live in, and it's not a pretty one. Not quite as good as it could have been November 18, 2003 18 out of 20 found this review helpful This is an important book. It's a book teenagers should read, it's especially a book their parents should read, and it's a book educators, politicians, publishers and artists should read.pSo why do I only give it three stars?pFor a book this celebrated, it is just far too narrow. Yes, we do live in a look-obsessed, sexist, girl-poisoning culture. Yes, it is extremely damaging and harmful to women, and can plausibly be linked to eating disorders, self-mutilation, and depression, as well as to violence and sexual abuse. Yes, we should be worried, and educate ourselves and others.pBut this book answers the question of why American girls are falling prey to depression, eating disorders and suicide at such alarming rates with only one answer, when the real answer is undoubtably a complex mixture of causes. In her anxiety to take the blame off the parents, the author doesn't have much to say about all the cases where the parents ARE even partly to blame for their teenagers depression. Hundreds of thousands of teenagers live with abusive home situations. Others suffer from clinical depressions which although they might be triggered in part by environment, can not be entirely explained by them and may need medical treatment; others suffer from appalling poverty, or racism, or other problems we don't see addressed.pI wish this book were more comprehensive. I wish it included other teenage voices, to give a more complete picture. The voices it shares with us are ones which need to be heard - but they are far from being the only ones, and I finished this book with the feeling that they had drowned certain other voices out. Of a rare quality October 24, 2003 8 out of 9 found this review helpful I used this book, taken from a list provided, as the subject of a term paper for a college psychology class. This was about 3 years ago, and it still takes my mind to a place of deep thought and reveals new insights. This book was interesting to read, and the author discloses information (that is difficult to know of) in an objective manner which is not devoid of kindness and respect for all involved. I admire this author's work because it facilitated an authentic communication for me. It allowed me to have a candid audience with teenage girls, and get a glimpse of what goes on in the mind, that before I had only seen the results of. It helped me to understand what is behind the behavior. I was so impressed with this book that I told one of the high school counselors about it. He has the book now, I gave it to him. This book isn't about blame and shame, it is about understanding and knowing. HS isn't the same as when we were kids October 19, 2003 2 out of 3 found this review helpful You must read this to truly understand today's adolescent girls. Pipher respects her clients and doesn't blame the parents. She gave me hope and positive solutions to try. Her case studies are heart wrenching but need to be told.

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