Reviving Ophelia : Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls

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Summary: As a father I found this book very revealing and useful.
Review: This book has brought to light subjects that I hadn't considered I would be faced with as my eight year old comes of age. It has made me realize the importance and necessity to keep an open dialogue between both of my children. I highlighted several items of intrest and shared them with my daughter while we are still able to talk without a multitude of influences. I feel this book has alowed me the opportunity, to offer her a foundation to a confusing time in our not so distant future.

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Summary: I think all parents of teenager daughters should read this.
Review: I am a colloege student majoring in education and I read this book for class. I am happy I picked this book. I think it is a good book for parents to read so they can better understand their teenage daughters and the things they go through.I wish my father had read this book,maybe we would have a better relationship. When this assignment is over I am going to give the book to him to read so he can understand my younger sister better. Hopefully it will make her teenage years more enjoyable.

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Summary: A useful book for teachers and families of adolescent girls.
Review: I am a college student majoring in education. I had to read a book for the class and selected " Reviving Ophelia" because it looked interesting. This book lived up to every expectation that I had of it. It was very informative. It is a very useful book for teachers in the middle school age group. It helps the reader understand a lot about girls during their adolescence. It uses case examples to show how media and families effect the lives of teenagers. I would recommend this book for anyone who has ever been interested about the lives of teenage girls or wondered what it is like to be a teenage girl in the 1990's.

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Summary: Mothers, share this book with your daughters.
Review: I am a parent, a mother of two daughters and will be sending copies of the book to them and to my two sisters who also have daughters. The effect of our culture on us as women and on our children is pervasive and often a negative influence that teaches us to devalue ourselves and our daughters. The book gave me much to think about, not only about the negative influences, but gave hopeful messages and meaningful ways that parents can help their children. I am very grateful that the author chose to share her wisdom.

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Summary: Excellent for parents, educatiors, and teen girls to read
Review: I read this book for my masters program on teacher research. I was doing a paper on revisiting single-sex education in the Health classroom and was teaching all-girls once again since 1973. I was referred to this book by a friend. It proved to be excellent and very informative with the case studies done by the author. I have recommended it to my girls in 8th grade and several of them have read and enjoyed the book. I have loaned my copy out to teachers with daughters of their own. Everyone enjoys and learns from it. I recognized myself in several of the cases and I am 51. I wish I had such a book to read when I was younger.

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Summary: Perfect For Parents Who Want to Help
Review: This book is amazingly accurate. I think everyone, everywhere should read this. It's especially helpful to those parents who don't understand the complexity of their teenage daughters. It's shameful how much our society today corrupts us. This book shows that we need to stop idolizing the beautiful,anorexic,shallow models and actresses and find some real role models who have done good things. I love it. It's a real eye-opener.

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Summary: Listen to what she has to say
Review: I read this book a year or two ago, and really enjoyed it. At first, the case studies discussed seem a bit extreme, but the feelings that Pipher writes of are present in even the most "non-dysfunctional" of girls. Teenage girls and parents of teenage girls should read this book.

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Summary: An insipering book that every teenager should read!
Review: The book "Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls" by Mary Bray Pipher is the kind of book that makes you realize that you're not the only one going through problems. It helps you to deal with these problems and understand the thinking behind them. Many feelings you may find hard to explain. But in this book it helps you put the feelings in words, and know that you are normal to feel this way. Every teenager and parent should read this. It may prove to help start the building blocks of a successful parent child realationship.

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Summary: A must-read
Review: I loved "Reviving Ophelia." I only wish I had read it earlier because I might have been a bit easier on my parents. There were so many moments where I felt as though Dr. Pipher was speaking directly to me. If you read the book, you will find that Dr. Pipher does not try to pathologize the adolescent experience of girl--quite the opposite, as she also describes in detail the girls who had healthy teenage years and the reasons for their positive outcomes. I have recommended this book to countless people, and all but one found it fascinating as well. (I don't think it was a coincidence that the one person who hated it was a member of the male population. It is very easy for guys to criticize this book because they have not grown-up in this world as girls.) Reviving Ophelia is truly a must-read book.

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Summary: Great book. Eye-opening. Don't expect too much though.
Review: Pipher does a wonderful job of opening the reader's eyes to some of the possible problems adolescent girls might experience. She never claims that all girls have these problems, just that these specific girls do. She is in the business of awareness, not solutions. Many reviewes complain that she makes unfair generalizations and fails to offer solutions, but she never claims to do either. She explains specific problems of specific girls so that we might be on the lookout for those same problems if they occur in the lives of girls we care about. And unfortunately there are no easy solutions, otherwise we'd have these problems solved, so don't expect miracles. This kind of descriptive research is critical for getting a complete picture of life today, and the fact that this is not a broad statistical study is in no way a weakness of this book, just a false expectation of many readers.