Ebook {Epub PDF} Ophelia Speaks: Adolescent Girls Write About Their Search for Self by Sara Shandler

Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls. Mary Pipher. Ophelia’s life and suicide from a feminist standpoint. Ophelia Speaks-Adolescent Girls Write about their Search for Self. Written by Sara Shandler, when she was a Wesleyan student. A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare .  · When she was 16, Shandler read Mary Pipher’s ”Reviving Ophelia,” the examination of plummeting self-esteem among adolescent girls, . With the publication of Mary Pipher's Reviving Ophelia in , Shakespeare's Ophelia became a symbol for adolescent girls who are drowning in the pressures of their day-to-day life. Pipher's appropriation of Ophelia resonated with readers, inspiring teenagers and their mothers to write back with texts entitled Ophelia Speaks, Ophelia's Mom, and Surviving Ophelia.

Two years ago, Sara Shandler, a college student, published a sequel of sorts, "Ophelia Speaks: Adolescent Girls Write About Their Search for Self," giving girls their own voice. When she was 16, Shandler read Mary Pipher's "Reviving Ophelia," the examination of plummeting self-esteem among adolescent girls, but she wanted to hear from the "Ophelias" themselves. Ophelia Speaks by Sara Shandler is a clever response to Mary Pipher's bestselling Reviving bltadwin.ruer reveals telling portraits of teenage girls in this book, a compilation of essays, poems, and true-grit commentary from a cross section of teenage girls (or Ophelias), throughout the country.

Ophelia Speaks: Adolescent Girls Write about Their Search for Self Sara Shandler, Author Harper Perennial $ (p) ISBN but their concerns should not be written off as diary angst. After reading Mary Pipher's Reviving Ophelia at age 16, Sara Shandler, so felt the absence of the voices of America's daughters she determined to find out with a book deal in hand, this teenager wrote letters to high school principals asking their assistance. The book, "Ophelia Speaks: Adolescent Girls Write About Their Search for Self" (published in May by HarperCollins), offers eye-opening perspectives on teen issues like family relationships, sex.