Reviving Ophelia.

Dr. Mary Pipher, author of Reviving Ophelia, discusses the pressures and challenges facing adolescent girls. She highlights major issues with media portrayals of women, including extreme sexualization, unrealistic body types, and an emphasis on women's bodies to the exclusion of their selves. P...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Ericsson, Susan (Producer)
Format:	Video
Language:	English
Language Notes:	Closed-captioned in English.
Published:	Northampton, Massachusetts : Media Education Foundation, 1998.
Subjects:	Teenage girls > Psychology. Teenage girls > Family relationships. Self-esteem in adolescence. Adolescentes > Psychologie. Adolescentes > Relations familiales. Estime de soi chez l'adolescent.
Online Access:	Connect to this streaming video

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Summary:	Dr. Mary Pipher, author of Reviving Ophelia, discusses the pressures and challenges facing adolescent girls. She highlights major issues with media portrayals of women, including extreme sexualization, unrealistic body types, and an emphasis on women's bodies to the exclusion of their selves. Pipher offers suggestions to boys, girls, parents, and teachers on how to support healthy development among adolescent girls.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (1 video file (43 min., 2 sec.)) : sound, colour.
Production Credits:	Producer, Susan Ericsson.
ISBN:	9781526403230 1526403234