Pipher argues that our mass-market, consumer-oriented culture--through slick advertising, pervasive media images of sex and violence, fragmented families, the availability of alcohol and drugs, and a population that's under ever-increasing levels of social stress--is ultimately responsible for this problem. While the situation is troubling, unlike most commentators Pipher does more than just sound alarm bells. She offers insight and workable, common sense solutions to the kinds of problems that ordinary people have to confront every day. Scherer observed that Pipher "describes how to rescue young women drowning in a culture that isolates and degrades them."
Reviving Ophelia consists of a series of composite case studies from Dr. Pipher's own practice as a psychologist in Lincoln, Nebraska, where she also teaches at the University of Nebraska--Lincoln and at Nebraska Wesleyan University. "Dozens of troubled teenage girls troop across [the book's] pages," commented Gleick. "[T]here's a girl here for everyone." Gleick attributed the mass popularity of Reviving Ophelia to one key factor: the fact that many readers--including parents--can identify with and buy into the message that emerges from at least one of the book's wide-ranging case studies.
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