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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]
Reviving Ophelia 25th Anniversary Edition: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls. ... Mary Pipher and her daughter, Sara Pipher Gilliam, wrote the updated edition, which focuses on that end of ...
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]
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 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.
Mary Pipher alluded to Ophelia in the title of her nonfiction book Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls. The book puts forth the thesis that modern American teenage girls are victimized, lost, and unsure of themselves, like Ophelia. [12] [13]
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