Reviving Ophelia | Teaching Key Figures

Character Descriptions

This section provides a short description of all the major characters in the book. This can be printed out as a study guide for students, used as a "key" for leading a class discussion, or you can jump to the quiz/homework section to find worksheets that incorporate these descriptions into a variety of question formats.

Characters

Dr. Pipher - A clinical psychologist and best-selling author with over twenty years of counseling experience.

Alice Miller - This person believes that girls are pressured to deny parts of themselves in order to please their parents.

Margaret Mead - This person believes that the ideal culture is one in which a place can be found for every human gift.

Polly - This person is described as "energy in motion".

Simone de Beauvoir - This person believes that girls realize in adolescence that men have all of the power in society.

Hillary Rodham...
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