Reviving Ophelia - Saving The Selves Of Adolescent Girls

[IMPORTANT: I DO NOT OWN THIS BOOK, THIS IS A VERY OLD BOOK CREATED A LONG TIME AGO TO EDUCATE PEOPLE]
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"All five hundred boys want to go out with the same ten Anorexic girls at my school."
"If I'm having a bad day, teachers and kids tell me to smile. I've never them say that to a guy."
"My best friend has a family and I don't."
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Why are more American adolescent girls prey to depresssion, 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 elememtary school-cause girls to stifle 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, for the first time, girls unmuted voices from the front lines of adolescence, personal and painfully honest. By laying bare their harsh day-to-day reality, Reviving Ophelia issues a call to arms and offers parents compassion, strength, and strategies with which to revive these Ophelia's lost sense of self.
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"A vibrant and insightful account... Dr. Pipher has sounded the alarm, one we must respond to if we care about our daughters, our nieces, our students and our therapy clients. The loss of the spirit which Dr. Pipher so brilliantly portrays is the loss of the American spirit."
- Dr. Natalie Porter
Former president, Division of the Psychology of Women, American Psychological Association
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"All parents with daughters should read this eye-opening work. Highly recommended."
- Library Journal