Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls

Mary Pipher Phd, Ruth Ross (Designer), Mary Bray Pipher, Mary (Author) Pipher, Charles D. Hamlin
Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2005

Everybody who has survived adolescence knows what a scary, tumultuous, exciting time it is. But if we use memories of our experiences to guide our understanding of what today’s girls are living through, we make a serious mistake. Our daughters are living in a new world. Reviving Ophelia is a call to arms from Dr. Mary Pipher, a psychologist who has worked with teenagers for more than a decade. She finds that in spite of the women’s movement, which has empowered adult women in some ways, teenage girls today are having a harder time than ever before because of higher levels of violence and sexism.