Research Catalog

Title

Ophelia speaks : adolescent girls write about their search for self / Sara Shandler.

Author

Shandler, Sara.

Publication

New York : HarperPerennial, c1999.

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Holdings

Details

Description

xvii, 285 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

A collection of the writings of teenage girls from all backgrounds and all parts of the country provides an inside view of their feelings on body image, politics, boys, and parents.

Subject

• Adolescent
• Body Image
• Body image in adolescence > United States
• Psychology, Adolescent
• Self Concept
• Self-esteem in adolescence > United States
• Teenage girls > Physiology > United States
• Teenage girls > United States > Physiology
• Teenage girls > United States > Psychology
• Women
• Youths' writings, American

Genre/Form

Personal Narrative

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Body under assault. Media-fed images ; Eating disorders ; Self-inflicted wounds ; Intoxication ; Rape and sexual abuse -- Family matters. Mothers ; Fathers ; Sisters and brothers ; Disintegrating foundations ; No safe place ; Preganancy ; Death in the family -- The best and worst of friends. With the support of friends ; Friendship lost ; When friends die -- Touched by desire. Innocent attractions ; Seduced by sex ; Diverse sexualities ; Manipulated and controlled ; Broken-hearted independence -- Overcoming obstacles and coming into our own. The academic squeeze ; Depression and therapy ; Race, identity, and prejudice ; Questions of faith ; Feminist pride.

ISBN

0060952970 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^99013534^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library