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Summary: A deeper understanding..
Review: I read Reviving Ophelia for my AP Psychology class in my senior year of high school and i found this book to be enlightening. I had always heard of this book but never really heard what it was about. After getting the opportunity to read this, i was excited and began avidly reading it. Pipher grabs the attention of the reader with interesting case studies about adolesent girls with insecurities and inner conflicts. Being and adolesent girl myself I could easily remember the times when I felt like those lost girls trying to find their own niche in an unaccepting society. Taking the time to read this book also gave me time to reflect upon myself and think about how things will be much worse by the time I have kids if we do not change society now. This book tends to be repetitious toward the end but I think that it is a book that every mother and daughter should read. It explains that what you think will be a life ending ordeal now will not be in time and that every storm shall pass.I honestly reccomend this book to everyone that has ever lost themselves in the fight between who they are and what society wants them to be.
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Summary: Excellent and Insightful
Review: Reviving Ophelia brings the reader into the world of adolecent girls quite well. The book is written so it speaks to both to girls as well as parents. Teenage girls can relate to the case studies presented and feel like they are not alone, while parents can read and understand more fully what girls go through in their adolecents, as well as whats to come. It also demonstrates how being a teenager has changed over the years. The points made in the book can be, at times, repetitive, but all in all the book is very interesting. It's sad to think that girls who are so young have already been through more then some people go through in a lifetime. The case studies and Dr. Pipher's personal stories from her teenage years gives a very nice, overall view on adolecents. We feel that in the whole, this book is a good read for both teenagers and parents alike.
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Summary: Reviving Ophelia
Review: This book was great. It has helped me through so much and has taught me so much more. Im a lot more understanding and open now that i've read this book- probably over 10 times. I recomend it to anyone and everyone. Please do not hesitate in buying this book, you'll cherish it.
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Summary: A wonderful book for parents of daughters
Review: This book was recommended to me by a friend who is also a psychologist. The book literally awakened me to the way culture and the media is influencing our children, especially girls. I am the parent of a sensitive 14 year old who was adopted at age 6 from foster care. My husband and I have struggled to understand the pressures she deals with daily. This book illustrates those pressures perfectly, from the media's depiction of women as thin, the obsession with beauty, to the common harrassment of girls in school by boys. I also enjoyed a story from the last chapters in the book, about a young girl who refused to go to school because of harrassment by her peers. This reminded me of my own situation, years ago. Mary Pipher called the girl brave because she refused to lose herself to the pressures and harrassment of her friends. For the first time in my life, I was able to resolve that issue in my own life...I was brave! I fought back to keep my true self! Thank you, Mary Pipher!
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Summary: Reviving Ophelia
Review: As a young female myself,someone gave me a copy of this book and about 6 months later I picked it up and read it. This book was a very very good book. I have to admit that I have probably read this book 14 times. The short stories in here about other young girls probably helped me through some of the hardest times I have been through. I have never been more drawn to a book as I was to this one,in fact I still read it regularly.The stories in this book will make you laugh & cry,and there are stories to which every teenage girl can relate. I loved this book!To me it was a rainbow after a storm. I think this book is something every teenager should read!! It is truly inspirational,and will help you get through your dark days (the ones we all have :0) ****I particularly liked the story of Gail,as I could relate in so many ways****
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Summary: Hard to pick back up...
Review: This is a very insightful, well-written account of the too-often trivialized challenges of being an adolescent girl. I have to say that I disagree with some of the reviews here that it's a fun book to curl up with and that it's hard to put down. The language is simple enough that it's fundamentally and easy read, but I've only been able to read it in small increments because of the memories it stirs up.
I had forgotten, for the most part, exactly how difficult this life phase was until I began to read Reviving Ophelia. I have recommended this book to everyone I know who has a daughter, hoping it will offer them some empathy and insight to help them survive the storm when it hits. Batten down the hatches.
Adolescence: Thank God it's over!
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Summary: reviving Ophelia: saving the selves of adolescent girls
Review: I am an elementary school teacher as well as a mentor to Jr high and high school girls. I found this book to be helpful for understanding my own finding of self as well as helping others find and keep their true selves. Mary Pipher really knows what she is talking about. I would also recomend the book Ophelia speaks to hear even more what our young girls are dealing with. If you have any young women in your life I would strongly recomend this book for you to read.
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Summary: The fruit does not fall far from the tree.
Review: Girls that are head cases sooner or later can become women who are even bigger head cases. The author is correct in that today's society is based on materialistic values, and places undo emphasis on having "fun" and being "popular". The truth be told is that there are alot of kids, girls as well as boys, that have too much time on their hands. Interestingly, the topics that the author covers also apply to boys. The book covers subjects that could prove useful for women who are stunted in their own development. How many women do you know still talk in "baby talk" who could use a dose of reading this book? The book is a real eye opener, it's sad that young women have so much pressure, from sexualization at an early age to low expectations passed down from mothers to daughters. I recommend this book to anyone who has the nerve to read it.
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Summary: Not for general reading
Review: My youngest daughter's counselor loaned us this book when she was in 10th grade. Much of it was unusuable for us, however I have found it is best to learn what you can and use what works for you. There was a lot of information that helped me understand many of the situations that happened to both my girls and why they reacted the way they did. Upon sharing my information with my daughters, they were relieved to know they were not alone in what they endured during middle school years. I now have 2 granddaughters who have arrived at this age. I'm purchasing a copy of this book to refresh my memory and, hopefully, detour some of the downplay of their peers. They are both unique and creative. If nothing else this book helps us to understand some of the things that went on in our lives. Most of the book is pretty heavy, but there is much that can be learned and is quite useful. USE WHAT YOU CAN AND LET GO OF THE REST!
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Summary: Reviving Ophelia
Review: More and more American girls are increasingly being subjected to depression, eating disorders, additions, and suicide attempts that ever before. Dr. Pipher takes a long hard look at American culture and exposes the warped messages that adolescent girls internalize on a daily basis. She claims that we live in a media-saturated and obsessive culture where looks and appearances are everything and where the young girl must sublimate her real self in order to be accepted by the rest of society. This suppression of her very innermost being not only stifles her creativity and naturalness but also leads to a destruction of her self-esteem at a time when it should be blossoming forth. Through reading Dr. Pipher's book, parents, educators, and counselors can be on the lookout for these insidious negative influences on their daughters', their young female students', and their adolescent girl clients' sense of self. Reviving Ophelia offers the hope that awareness will quite possibly be the first step toward rectifying this epidemic and tragic loss, and will ultimately create a society that is more nurturing to our young females, where their gifts and talents can be developed and appreciated by everyone for the good of all humankind.
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