- Hardcover: 224 pages
- Publisher: OUP USA; 1st Edition edition (14 Dec 1995)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0195069862
- ISBN-13: 978-0195069860
- Product Dimensions: 24.1 x 16.2 x 2.3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 604,363 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"The use of historical figures--actresses, scientists, authors, activists, and world leaders--lends an interesting aura to this reevaluation of the reasons behind anxious somatic depression, anorexia, and overeating."--Booklist
"By explicitly linking a pattern of symptoms to the social position of young women, they argue powerfully for a cure at the level of society rather than at the individual or family levels"--Women's Review of Books
"By explicitly linking a pattern of symptoms to the social position of young women, they argue powerfully for a cure at the level of society rather than at the individual or family levels"--Women's Review of Books
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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.
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