Reviving Ophelia 25th Anniversary Edition: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls

The 25th anniversary edition of the iconic book, revised and updated for 21stcentury adolescent girls and their families.In 1994, Reviving Ophelia was published, and it shone a muchneeded spotlight on the problems faced by adolescent girls. The book became iconic and helped to reframe the national conversation about what author Mary Pipher called a girlpoisoning culture surrounding adolescents. Fast forward to today, and adolescent girls and the parents, teachers, and counselors who care about them find themselves confronting many of the same challenges Pipher wrote about originally as well as new ones specific to today.Girls still struggle with misogyny, sexism, and issues of identity and selfesteem. But theyre also more isolated than ever before: They dont talk facetoface to the people around them, including their peers, as they used to: Theyre texting or on social media for hours at a time. And while girls today are less likely to be in trouble for their drinking or sexual behavior, they have a greater chance of becoming depressed, anxious, or suicidal.In this revised and updated Reviving Ophelia, Pipher and her daughter, Sara Pipher Gilliam (who was a teenager at the time of the books original publication), have incorporated these new issues for a 21stcentury readership. In addition to examining the impact that social media has on adolescent girls lives today, Pipher and Gilliam explore the rising and empowering importance of student activism in girls lives, the wider acceptance of diverse communities among young people, and the growing disparities between urban and rural, rich and poor, and how they can affect young girls sense of selfworth. With a new foreword and afterword and chapters that explore these topics, this new edition of Reviving Ophelia builds on the relevance of the original as it provides key insights into the challenges and opportunities facing adolescent girls today.The approach Pipher and Gilliam take in the new edition is just what it was in the original: a timely, readable combination of insightful research and realworld examples that illuminate the challenges young women face and the ways to address them. This updated Reviving Ophelia looks at 21st century adolescent girls through fresh eyes, with insights and ideas that will help new generations of readers.