Ophelia speaks : adolescent girls write about their search for self / Sara Shandler.
TITLE:
Ophelia speaks : adolescent girls write about their search for self / Sara Shandler.
By:
Publication Date:
1999
Publication Information:
New York : HarperPerennial,
Physical Description:
285 p.
Summary:
When Sara Shandler was 16, she read psychologist Mary Pipher's Reviving Ophelia . "Horror stories of eating disorders, self-mutilation, abusive relationships floated across the page," Shandler writes of Pipher's book on adolescent girls. "Pipher equated our contemporary adolescent experiences to Shakespeare's ill-fated Ophelia." Shandler identified with the emotional experiences described in the book. "However," she explains, "I did not feel simply spoken to, I felt spoken for."
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780060952976
