Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Lives of Adolescent Girls - Mary Pipher

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160930 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Lives of Adolescent Girls Author: Mary Pipher Narrator: Mary Pipher Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 0 minutes Release date: July 4, 2000 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.25 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Relationships & Intimacy Publisher's Summary: Why are more American adolescent girls prey to depression, eating disorders, addictions, and suicide attempts than ever before? According to Dr. Mary Pipher, a clinical psychologist who has treated girls for more than twenty years, we live in a look-obsessed, media-saturated, "girl-poisoning" culture. Despite the advances of feminism, escalating levels of sexism and violence--from undervalued intelligence to sexual harassment in elementary school--cause girls to stifle their creative spirit and natural impulses, which, ultimately, destroys their self-esteem. Yet girls often blame themselves or their families for this "problem with no name" instead of looking at the world around them. Here, for the first time, are girls' unmuted voices from the front lines of adolescence, personal and painfully honest. By laying bare their harsh day-to-day reality, Reviving Ophelia issues a call to arms and offers parents compassion, strength, and strategies with which to revive these Ophelias' lost sense of self.