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

by Brett Silverstein, Deborah Perlick, Dashka Slater

Book Overview

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, USA
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.5"