![]() ![]() Mary Pipher writes in Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls, "America is a girl-destroying place." Things don't end well for Jean, but that, too, is a familiar adolescent experience: As Dr. And it's the reaction of her team members as much as anything that speaks to being a teenage girl: People around you - even if they know you - treat you as inherently unknowable, deeply irrational, and somehow dangerous. ![]() The obvious (from the comics and the first generation of the franchise) has Jean Grey wrestling with new powers that enhance both her abilities and her capacity for destruction.īut this X-generation is younger, which gives Jean's struggle some distinctly adolescent subtext. The recent Dark Phoenix movie offers two familiar narratives. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Reviving Ophelia Subtitle Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls Author Mary, Ph.D. ![]()
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