Twenty-five years ago and then in her 40s, clinical psychologist Mary Pipher wrote “Reviving Ophelia,” a seminal book about adolescent girls. Now Dr. Pipher is exploring women getting older and finds this stage too, like teenage years, is a time of dealing with changing bodies, expectations and stereotypes.
From her home in Lincoln, Neb., which sits at the edge of a city park and looks out onto a lake often filled with hundreds of geese, Dr. Pipher, 71, discussed her new book “Women Rowing North,” which will be published Tuesday....