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

by Brett Silverstein, Deborah Perlick, Dashka Slater

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Since the advent of the women's movement, women have made unprecedented gains in almost every field, from politics to the professions. Paradoxically, doctors and mental health professionals have also seen a staggering increase in the numbers of young women suffering from an epidemic of depression, eating disorders, and other physical and psychological problems. In The Cost of Competence, authors Brett Silverstein and Deborah Perlick argue that rather...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0195069862

ISBN13:9780195069860

Release Date:August 1995

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:224 Pages

Weight:1.15 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.4" x 9.5"

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