Bedford Public Library

Reviving Ophelia, saving the selves of adolescent girls, Mary Pipher, Ph.D., and Sara Pipher Gilliam

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-402) and index

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Reviving Ophelia

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Mary Pipher, Ph.D., and Sara Pipher Gilliam

saving the selves of adolescent girls

"In 1994, Reviving Ophelia was published, and it shone a much-needed spotlight on the problems faced by adolescent girls. The book became iconic and helped to reframe the national conversation about what author Mary Pipher called "a girl-poisoning culture" surrounding adolescents. Fast forward to today, and adolescent girls and the parents, teachers, and counselors who care about them find themselves confronting many of the same challenges Pipher wrote about originally as well as new ones specific to today. In this revised and updated Reviving Ophelia, Pipher and her daughter, Sara Pipher Gilliam (who was a teenager at the time of the book's original publication), have incorporated these new issues for a 21st-century readership. In addition to examining the impact that social media has on adolescent girls' lives today, Pipher and Gilliam explore the rising and empowering importance of student activism in girls' lives, the wider acceptance of diverse communities among young people, and the growing disparities between urban and rural, rich and poor, and how they can affect young girls' sense of self-worth. With a new foreword and afterword and chapters that explore these topics, this new edition of Reviving Ophelia builds on the relevance of the original as it provides key insights into the challenges and opportunities facing adolescent girls today. The approach Pipher and Gilliam take in the new edition is just what it was in the original: a timely, readable combination of insightful research and real-world examples that illuminate the challenges young women face and the ways to address them. This updated Reviving Ophelia looks at 21st century adolescent girls through fresh eyes, with insights and ideas that will help new generations of readers." --, Provided by publisher

Introduction (Mary) -- Introduction (Sara) -- Saplings in the storm -- False selves, true selves -- Developmental considerations -- Then and now, 1959-2019 -- Families: the root systems -- Mothers -- Fathers -- Divorce -- Depression and self-harm -- Anxiety -- Worshipping thinness -- Drugs and alcohol -- Sex and violence -- What I've learned from listening -- Let a thousand flowers bloom -- A fence at the top of the hill

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Saving the selves of adolescent girls