Reviving Olphelia by Mary Pipher

Reviving Ophelia
Mary Pipher's book, Revivng Ophelia, was an attempt to describe the struggle our adolescent girls endure trying to make sense of our popular culture. Our group decided to turn our presentation into a talk show featuring some of the girls profiled in the book as well as Mary, their psychologist. They key messages we attempted to show the class were: the stress relationships between parents and adolescent girls is are under as a result of a misogynistic culture, the effects of the popular culture on the girls' perception of selves, and the dangers of ignoring these implica…