Author:Mary Pipher
Why are adolescent girls prone to depression, eating disorders, addictions and suicide attempts than ever before? Mary Pipher believes adolescence is an especially precarious time for girls, a time when the fearless, outgoing child is replaced by an unhappy and insecure teenager.
Her view is that for the most part it is our look-obsessed, media-saturated, 'girl-poisoning' culture - and not parents - which is to blame. Despite the advances of feminism, escalating levels of sexism and violence cause girls to stifle their creative spirit and natural impulses, which, ultimately, destroys their self-esteem. Yet it is often their families that are blamed.
Here, for the first time, are thr girls unmuted voices. By laying bare their harsh day-to-day reality, Reviving Ophelia offers parents compassion, strength and strategies with which to revive these Ophelias' lost sense of self.
An important book. . . . Pipher shines high-beam headlights on the world of teenage girls
—— Los Angeles TimesAbsorbing and vivid.... the best and most touching element of Stuff is that, unlike so many memoirs concerning parents, it emphatically delivers... It is a lively and entertaining book, yet its earnest concern, in the end, is to examine what truly remains of the dead we have loved, and to face up to all the sorting
—— Lynn Truss , Sunday TimesMartin Rowson is one of the most viscerally distinctive and critically acclaimed cartoonists working in Britain today....Stuff is a rich and profoundly sensitive book
—— Stuart Kelly , Scotland on SundayHe is a sensitive writer, capable of great subtlety and nuanced emotional gear-changes
—— William Leith , GuardianA wonderful evocation of what it was like to grow up in the Sixties and Seventies. The writing is never less than pin-sharp...deeply moving
—— Kathryn Hughes , Mail on SundayStuff is a candid, sanguine, often very amusing, illustration of a serious point of view
—— Ruth Scurr , Daily TelegraphFrequently touching without being mawkish, Stuff is a surprisingly life-affirming read and, despite the emotive subjects being covered, often a very funny one, too
—— New StatesmanStuff is a moving, funny and stylish account of how to hang on to the bits you really need
—— Irish TimesHypnotically readable, this wonderful book is like exploring an attic packed with fascinating odds and ends... Highly evocative, oddly moving, and includes some marvellous trivia
—— Sunday TimesAs fascinating as it is at times utterly disturbing
—— Entertainment Weekly
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