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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 ]
Pipher is best known for a book she wrote in 1994, introducing the terms Ophelia complex or Ophelia syndrome, in Reviving Ophelia.There she argued for a view of Shakespeare's character of Ophelia in Hamlet as lacking inner direction and externally defined by men, [8] and suggested that similar external pressures were currently faced by post-pubescent girls. [9]
Mary Pipher in Reviving Ophelia [11] acknowledges girls with various sexualities, family dynamics, health states, etc. Mary describes girls as trees who are frail in a huge storm. Their roots determine if they are strong enough to withstand the storm.
Reviving Ophelia 25th Anniversary Edition: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls. $14.99. amazon.com. Barbie and Ruth: The Story of the World's Most Famous Doll and the Woman Who Created Her ...
Mary Pipher and her daughter, Sara Pipher Gilliam, wrote the updated edition, which focuses on that end of girlhood. "They’re funny and brash and confident, and then they just—stop," Gerwig says.
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]
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