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The Cost of Competence : Why Inequality Causes Depression, Eating Disorders, and Illness in Women.
Challenging assumptions about anorexic or depressed women, this study argues that it is time to examine more deeply the widespread prejudices within our society that lead thousands of young women to equate thinness with competence and success, and femininity with failure.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1995.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents; Introduction; 1 Curves and Competence; 2 The Disease of Young Women; 3 Depression; 4 Anxious Somatic Depression; 5 Tying the Knot: Marriage, Childbearing, and Sexuality; 6 Daughters and Sons; 7 Idealized Fathers, Devalued Mothers; 8 Adolescence; 9 Gender Ambivalence; 10 Anxious Somatic Depression During Periods of Changing Gender Roles; 11 Recognition, Prevention, and Treatment; Appendixes; A: Depression, Disordered Eating, and Somatic Symptoms Among Eminent Women; B: Model of the Development of the Symptoms of Anxious Somatic Depression.
- C: Methods and Results of Unpublished Studies Cited in This BookReferences and Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.