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Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls is a 1994 book written by Mary Pipher. This book examines the effects of societal pressures on American adolescent girls, and utilizes many case studies from the author's experience as a therapist . [ 1 ]
The danger of the Ophelia syndrome was that of abandoning a rooted childhood self, for an apparently more sophisticated but over-externalized façade self. [10] Reviving Ophelia 25th Anniversary Edition: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls is a revised and updated book co-written with Dr. Pipher's daughter, Sara Gilliam.
Open Library is an online project intended to create "one web page for every book ever published". Created by Aaron Swartz, [3] [4] Brewster Kahle, [5] Alexis Rossi, [6] Anand Chitipothu, [6] and Rebecca Hargrave Malamud, [6] Open Library is a project of the Internet Archive, a nonprofit organization.
A later, and unconnected, use of the terms Ophelia complex/Ophelia syndrome was introduced by Mary Pipher in her Reviving Ophelia of 1994. There she argued for a view of Shakespeare's character as lacking inner direction and externally defined by men (father/brother), [5] and suggested that similar external pressures were currently faced by post-pubescent girls. [6]
Ophelia Speaks: Adolescent Girls Write About Their Search for Self is a 1999 book written by Sara Shandler and published by HarperCollins. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The book is an anthology of works by adolescent girls which spent eighteen weeks on The New York Times Best Seller List . [ 4 ]
David, friend of a caretaker named Homer Buckland, is an elderly man who is spending his later years hanging out at the local gas station in a small town. He listens to Homer narrate a tale about a woman he knew named Ophelia Todd, who was obsessed with finding shortcuts before disappearing sometime ago.
Rebecca Jane Williams (born July 28, 1988) is a Canadian corporate manager and former actress. A native of Liverpool, England, she immigrated to Canada at age four, [1] attended Toronto's Malvern Collegiate Institute, and trained at Armstrong Acting Studios. [2]
Lisa Klein is an American author known for her Shakespearean works including Ophelia and Lady Macbeth's Daughter. [1] She was an assistant professor of English at Ohio State University for eight years but left when she was denied tenure.