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OverviewAn eye-opening look at the everyday cultural dangers facing teenage girls and how adults can help them. Why are adolescent girls prone to depression, eating disorders, addictions and suicide attempts than ever before? Mary Pipher believes adolescence is an especially precarious time for girls, a time when the fearless, outgoing child is replaced by an unhappy and insecure teenager. Her view is that for the most part it is our look-obsessed, media-saturated, 'girl-poisoning' culture - and not parents - which is to blame. Despite the advances of feminism, escalating levels of sexism and violence cause girls to stifle their creative spirit and natural impulses, which, ultimately, destroys their self-esteem. Yet it is often their families that are blamed. Here, for the first time, are thr girls unmuted voices. By laying bare their harsh day-to-day reality, Reviving Ophelia offers parents compassion, strength and strategies with which to revive these Ophelias' lost sense of self. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Mary Pipher, PhDPublisher: Ebury Publishing Imprint: Vermilion Dimensions: Width: 13.80cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.331kg ISBN: 9780091815004ISBN 10: 0091815002 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 05 September 1996 Recommended Age: From 0 years Audience: College/higher education , Young adult , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Teenage / Young adult Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviewsAn important book. . . . Pipher shines high-beam headlights on the world of teenage girls * Los Angeles Times * Clinical psychologist Pipher turns her attention to female adolescence in contemporary America. Pipher examines not just the girls themselves but the society they inhabit, which she terms girl-poisoning. Looking at why a generation of girls who ought to have benefited from the women's movement are losing rather than gaining self-esteem as they become women, she takes on divorce, eating disorders, self-mutilation, sexual pressure, and MTV, among other things. She also posits that intelligent girls are more prone to depression because they are more aware of their surroundings and therefore more aware of the new constraints they face as they leave childhood. Pipher integrates literature, memoirs, and memories of her own adolescence and that of her daughter; she also has a deft way of summing up psychological phenomena in layperson's terms, as when she dubs the changes that girls go through a social and developmental Bermuda Triangle. The summaries of her own sessions with adolescent girls add liveliness as well. Some of the patients have laserlike insight into their own situations, like the depressed 15-year-old who muses that at her age [a]ll five hundred boys want to go out with the same ten anorexic girls.' Serious and thoughtful material presented with the fluidity of good fiction - sure to appeal to parents, teachers, and anyone interested in modern American culture. (Kirkus Reviews) An important book... Pipher shines high-beam headlights on the world of teenage girls Los Angeles Times Author InformationMary Pipher, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and bestselling author. She teaches part-time at the University of Nebraska and travels all over the world sharing her ideas with community groups, schools, and health care professionals. She lives in Lincoln, Nebraska. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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