I have a list of books that are book recommended as great feminist texts or women writer's texts. And one of the books on that list is Reviving Ophelia. I decided to read this book
1. My own sister is going through her phase of being a teenage girl. This book was done on the hardships of teenagers, especially teenage girls this generation. Through of course no help but our own culture. I wanted to first read this to see what I thought of the book and make notes.
2. I wanted to provide this book to my grandmother who is raising my sister. They fight constantly and no one seems to understand what is going on. I have a better understanding because I was just in my sister's place a couple years ago. However, this book has been suggested for parents to read who have teenage daughters or who will have teenage daughters. About trying to better understand where their anger might come from. I am hoping from this book she understands a little more about girls in general and what they have to face today.
3. I find it interesting looking back on my own adolesence, which according to the book I am possibly still part of. Now a days adolesence can last till about 22, and I am 20. As a Women's studies major and overall a concerned citizen...I am familiar with alot of cultural change, especially towards sex. So alot of what this psychologist rights about is very familiar and very obvious to me. I have so far found it interesting how I can relate some of my own experiences and better understand and say...wow you know what-- that is how I felt, that is why I did that.
I suggest this book to anyone who
1. Has a teenage daughter
2. Will have a teenage daughter
3. Who know longer has a teenage daugher, but is curious to see what is going on
4. Faced problems in their teenage years, and possibly relate back to anything or find an unerstanding of things that could actually still be troubling you underneath it all.
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March 2008 
oneheart808onelove
