Reviving+Ophelia

= **// Reviving Ophelia //** ** Mary Pipher **  This page is intended to supplement the in class discussions about your book and allow more elements of the book to be further explored. Discussion leader should:  1. List the pages that are to be read that week. 2. Post discussion questions a few days before an in class discussion. 3. During the weeks that there is not enough time for a discussion class, leaders will use this page to facilitate the discussion. This included posting questions and responding to each member's comments. = 1.) Do you agree with the fact that Pipher says teenage girls are the most difficult in the age spectrum to get along with? Why or why not?  2.) From pages 256-259, Pipher shares some strategies of dealing with the stress of the world around us; do you think you could personally apply these strategies into your everyday life? Which strategies would work for you? Why would they work for you or not work for you? 3.) On page 259, Pipher says quotes what she thinks a women needs. Do you agree with this? What do you think a teenage girl would want? Do you think Pipher gives some of these girls what they want or need? 4.) Do you believe that authoritative parenting is really the best method for raising a child? Do you believe some races/ethnic groups are more authoritative than others? Why or why not? 5.) What were your general reactions to the end of the book? Did the book end on a good note? If not, what do you think could have been changed? =Reading 3: 185-247 Discussion Leader: Katharine= Questions: 1) Initial reactions to the sexual violence passage? 2) On page 208, Pipher says, “My own belief is that junior-high girls are not ready for sexual experiences beyond kissing and hand holding. Girls that age are too young to understand and handle all the implications of what they are doing.” Do you agree with her? 3) Now that Pipher has included a chapter dedicated to what her life was like as a young girl and how it’s different from the 90’s, do your opinions on her stories from therapy change? 4) Do you think your emotional self would be different had you grown up with Pipher in her town? 5) What did you think about how women getting raped affects other men? (Page 230). =Reading 2: 101-185 Discussion Leader: Katya=
 * Reading 4: 248-293 Discussion Leader: Tye Richards**
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Questions: 1. Is hurting yourself really bad if it has no lasting damage and makes you feel better? What does it say about deeper issues? 2. How would living in a house without scales affect an adolescent girl? What if she was always raised this way? What if this was something new that her parents introduced? 3. Do you think lookism and sexism is a prevalent now, in 2010 as it was in the 1990s based on this reading? 4. Is Brookline different from the average american town in terms of lookism, sexism, obesity, and eating disorders? 5. Do you think that it is parents' responsibility to stay together if divorce would be emotionally traumatizing for their child? 6. Do you think parents are generally closer to their daughters now than in the 1990s? What about fathers? Is it different in Brookline?