Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I58; The Forgotten Syndrome -- 1 Curves and Competence -- 2 The Disease of Young Women -- 3 Depression -- 4 Anxious Somatic Depression -- 5 Tying the Knot58; Marriage44; Childbearing44; and Sexuality -- Part II58; Females44; Families44; and Achievement -- 6 Daughters and Sons -- 7 Idealized Fathers44; Devalued Mothers -- Part III58; The Theory of Gender Ambivalence -- 8 Adolescence -- 9 Gender Ambivalence -- 10 Anxious Somatic Depression During Periods of Changing Gender Roles -- Part IV58; Practical Implications of Our Findings -- 11 Recognition44; Prevention44; and Treatment -- Appendixes -- A58; Depression44; Disordered Eating44; and Somatic Symptoms Among Eminent Women -- B58; Model of the Development of the Symptoms of Anxious Somatic Depression -- C58; Methods and Results of Unpublished Studies Cited in This Book -- References and Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U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 -- Last Page
Summary
In The Cost of Competence Brett Silverstein and Deborah Perlick argue that rather than simply labelling 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
Analysis
Women Psychology
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-209) and index