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The Cost of Competence: Why Inequality Causes Depression, Eating Disorders, and Illness in Women - Hardcover

Silverstein, Brett

 
9780195069860: The Cost of Competence: Why Inequality Causes Depression, Eating Disorders, and Illness in Women
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0195069862 ISBN 13: 9780195069860
Verlag: Oxford University Press, 1995

Inhaltsangabe

The link between talented women. depression, and eating disorders

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Brett Silverstein is Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, City College of New York, and the author of Fed Up. Deborah Perlick is Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Cornell University Medical College.

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In The Cost of Competence, authors Brett Silverstein and Deborah Perlick argue that rather than simply labeling individual women as, say, anorexic or depressed, it is time to look harder at the widespread prejudices within our society and child-rearing practices that lead thousands of young women to equate thinness with competence and success, and femininity with failure. They argue that continuing to treat depression, anxiety, anorexia and bulimia as separate disorders in young women can, in many cases, be a misguided approach since they are really part of a single syndrome. Furthermore, their fascinating research into the lives of forty prominent women from Elizabeth I to Eleanor Roosevelt show that these symptoms have been disrupting the lives of bright, ambitious women not for decades, but for centuries. Drawing on all the latest findings, rare historical research, cross-cultural comparisons, and their own study of over 2,000 contemporary women attending high schools and colleges, the authors present powerful new evidence to support the existence of a syndrome they call anxious somatic depression. The authors show that identifying this devastating syndrome is a first step toward its prevention and cure. The Cost of Competence presents an urgent message to parents, educators, policymakers, and the medical community on the crucial importance of providing young women with equal opportunity, and equal respect.

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Verlag
Oxford University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1995
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0195069862
ISBN 13 
9780195069860
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Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
228
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