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Reviving Ophelia Analysis
Date Submitted: 05/23/2002 07:53:40
The book Reviving Ophelia, by Mary Pipher, PH.D., is described as "An eye-opening look at the everyday dangers of being young and female, and how adults can help." The main points of this book are to teach the world that growing up as an adolescent girl can be very hard, and while the outside world is changing around them, their insides are changing too. Between about 12-17 are especially hard ages for females. Mary
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and stressed more then enough. The one thing that made the book very interesting were the different personal accounts of her therapy patients. In a way, they were something I could relate to, and for that reason I would probably tell other girls to read this book. As for Dr. Pipher's opinions on girls, and why they are the way they are at this time in America, I wouldn't take everything she says as truth.
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