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Reviving Ophelia Mary Pipher's book, Revivng Ophelia, was an attempt to describe the struggle our adolescent girls endure trying to make sense of our popular culture. Our group decided to turn our presentation into a talk show featuring some of the girls profiled in the book as well as Mary, their psychologist. They key messages we attempted to show the class were: the stress relationships between parents and adolescent girls is are under as a …

…I was the only one who felt this strongly and I didn't know how to incorporate it into our presentation. I didn't want to have a little mini presentation of my own. I guess majority rules. But had I though of it then, I would have had an audience member question Mary on stage about the absence of certain groups in her book and her failure to mention that boys suffer from this culture too.