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Reviving Ophelia : saving the selves of adolescent girls

Author: Mary Bray Pipher
Publisher: New York : Ballantine Books, 1995.
Edition/Format: Book : English : 1st Ballantine Books edView all editions and formats
Summary: In this eye-opening and knowing look at the complex world of teenage girls, psychologist Pipher writes of the dangerous and devastating realities that face young girls today--dysfunctional families, incest. abuse, introduction to sex too soon, eating disorders--and tells how to confront and understand them.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Mary Bray Pipher
ISBN: 0345392825 9780345392824
OCLC Number: 32127671
Description: 304 p. ; 21 cm.
Contents: Saplings in the storm -- Theoretical issues--for your own good -- Developmental issues-- "I'm not waving, I'm drowning" -- Families--the root systems -- Mothers -- Fathers -- Divorce -- Within the hurricane--depression -- Worshiping the Gods of thinness -- Drugs and alcohol--if Ophelia were alive today -- Sex and violence -- Then and now -- What I've learned from listening -- Let a thousand flowers bloom -- A fence at the top of the hill.
Responsibility: Mary Pipher.

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In this eye-opening and knowing look at the complex world of teenage girls, psychologist Pipher writes of the dangerous and devastating realities that face young girls today--dysfunctional families, incest. abuse, introduction to sex too soon, eating disorders--and tells how to confront and understand them.

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