Reviving Ophelia

Name: Reviving Ophelia
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ISBN: 9780345392824

ISBN-10: 0345392825

ISBN-13: 9780345392824

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Authors: Mary Pipher

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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 look-obsessed, media-saturated, "girl-poisoning" culture. Despite the advances of feminism, escalating levels of sexism and violence--from undervalued intelligence to sexual harassment in elementary school--cause girls to stifle their creative spirit and natural impulses, which, ultimately, destroys their self-esteem. Yet girls often blame themselves or their families for this "problem with no name" instead of looking at the world around them. Here,…

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List price: $14.95
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 2/14/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Mary Pipher is a contributor for the following Houghton Mifflin Company Title: The Middle of Everywhere



Preface



Saplings in the Storm



Theoretical Issues - For Your Own Good



Developmental Issues - "I'm Not Waving, I'm Drowning"



Families - The Root Systems



Mothers



Fathers



Divorce



Within the Hurricane - Depression



Worshiping the Gods of Thinness



Drugs and Alcohol - If Ophelia Were Alive Today



Sex and Violence



Then and Now



What I've Learned from Listening



Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom



A Fence at the Top of the Hill


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Index