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Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls

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By Mary Pipher
Publisher Random House Publishing Group - (Ballantine Books)
Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
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Why are more American adolescent girls prey to depression, eating disorders, addictions, and suicide attempts than ever before? According to Dr. Mary Pipher, a clinical psychologist who has treated girls for more than twenty years, we live in a lookobsessed, mediasaturated, girlpoisoning culture. Despite the advances of feminism, escalating levels of sexism and violencefrom undervalued intelligence to sexual harassment in elementary schoolcause girls to stifle their creative spirit and natural impulses, which, ultimately, destroys their selfesteem. Yet girls often blame themselves or their families for this problem with no name instead of looking at the world around them. Here, for the first time, are girls unmuted voices from the front lines of adolescence, personal and painfully honest. By laying bare their harsh daytoday reality, Reviving Ophelia issues a call to arms and offers parents compassion, strength, and strategies with which to revive these Ophelias lost sense of self.

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