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Though previous books like Reviving Ophelia have worked at exploring female adolescence in all its messy glory, Levine’s is the first to focus specifically on the subculture of Hasidic girls. Like the Lubavitchers who believe that all thoughts and acts are worthy of attention due to its ability to bring the Messiah closer, Levine believes that cultures and people who are “different” from the mainstream of American life are worthy of study...

Author: By Jackeline Montalvo, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Alumna Levine Probes Lives of Hasidic Teens | 12/5/2003 | See Source »

Some might also find fault with The River as an ideological statement. The play found evocative power in its regular mentions of “Ophelia, who died because she lacked a vocabulary” and of Virginia Woolf’s suicide. Those references, however, combined with the play’s final image—a woman, satiated by a man, privately reveling in her own unclothed body—to present a worldview that would have seemed a bit naive even before midcentury articulations of feminism, and which verges on being downright retrograde...

Author: By Patrick D. Blanchfield, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Production of 'River' Drowns in Pool | 11/10/2003 | See Source »

...award] is a victory for people who believe in global equity,” said PIH president Ophelia Dahl, one of Kim’s close colleagues...

Author: By J. PATRICK Coyne, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Faculty Members Nab Three Genius Grants | 10/7/2003 | See Source »

Gilligan inspired an increasing literature on the problems of adolescent girls, including Reviving Ophelia, a best-selling book about troubled teenage girls written by a clinical psychologist...

Author: By Lauren R. Dorgan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Trailblazer Takes Off | 6/6/2003 | See Source »

...JAPAN'S OPHELIA If you are curious about the legend of Okichi, this site, put out by Japan-based academic Kathleen Kitao, discerns fact from fiction and gives a web view of all the spots dedicated to Shimoda's most famous daughter, including where to find her grave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Web Crawling | 11/4/2002 | See Source »

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