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Witkin-Lanoil, Georgia. The Female Stress Syndrome: How to Recognize and Live with It. New York: Newmarket Press, 1984. Print.

Pg 13-Explanation of stress Pg 17- Physical stress symptoms: ulcerative colitis, peptic ulcer, irritable bowel syndrome, heart attack, high blood pressure, cardiac arrhythmia, hyperventilation, asthma, rheumatoid arthritis, allergies, skin disorders, headaches, swallowing difficulties, heartburn, nausea, stomach knots, cold sweats, neck aches, chronic fatigue, dizziness, chest pains, backaches, urinary frequency, muscle spasms, memory impairment, panic attacks, constipation, diarrhea, insomnia. Pg 19- Unique women side effects of stress: Amenorrhea (loss of menstruation), premenstrual tension/ headache complex, postpartum depression, menopausal melancholia, vaginismus (painful intercourse), frigidity (inhibited sexual arousal), anorgasm, infertility. More frequent in women: Anorexia, bulimia, anxiety neurosis, depressive psychosis. Pg 36-Individual factors in FSS: rate of hormonal change amount of hormonal depletion, physical fitness, meaning of age. Pg 52 Nuture Mentration and societys mixed messages. for many women, sexual stress reflects negative associations with female body functions. Pg 68- Socialization statistics Pg 71-If girls are treated as though their aggressive, assertive, and achieving impulses are unexpected and even undesirable, we can logically anticipate a high anxiety level in young girls as they struggle to control these natural impulses. Pg 75- Fear of Failure vs Need for Acheivement: Women with a high fear of failure will constantly handicap themselves and increase their own strrss in order to defend themselves agsibst failure with excuses. Pg 135-147- Hidden stress: driving, waiting, entertaining, noise, phobias, guilt, life events, Pg 181-199- Living with Female Stress.

Braiker, Harriet B. The Type E Woman: How to Overcome thr Stress of Being Everything to Everybody. New York: Signet Press, 1987. Print. Pg 5- Success for achievement-orientated women today is defined as achievement in both realms: career and personal. But the success formula is a calculus that often yields enormous frustration and exhaustion.

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Pg 7- Much of the stress arises because women often feel deep conflict between work and love, between competing demands for their time and attention Pg 9 Type A man: an action-emotion complex that can be observed in any person who is aggressively involved in a chronic, incessant struggle to achieve more and more in less and less time Pg 14- instead of single-minded, one-dimensional Type A personality that strives fore more and more and more, Type E women feel pulled in multiple directions by a seemingly endless stream of demands from family, work, husbands or boyfriends, and community and/or professional orgs. they want to keep everyones approval and they cope with the demands by trying to do it all, often at a substantial cost to their emotional and physical well-being. Pg 16- the really dangerous part of the Type E personality is the self-perpetuating and ultimately self-destructive nature of the stress cycle it produces the more you do, the more you have to get done. Pg 17- type E stress is a cognitive-behavioral syndrome. This means that really to get a grip on her stress problems, the Type E high-achieving woman must first understand the underlying roots of the problem in psychological terms- how she thinks.. Pg 46- last paragrapgh- women, achievement, and stress. Pg 49-In women, the need to achieve is virtually fused to the need for what psychologists call affiliation, or need for social approval and acceptance- by both women and, particularly, men. Pg 50- Fear of success!! Pg 52- In the first place.loss of femininity and sexual desirability. Pg 59- Achievement guilt Pg 61- Women have filter that enhances the intensity of negative information while minimizing or discounting the positive feedback. with this distorted filter on your perceptions, negative feedback form significant other people in your life can spiral into full-scale depression Pg 192- girls are conditioned early in life to adapt their behavior according to their care-focused morality. As a consequence, women are predisposed toward behavior that meets the needs of others. Pg 197- positive and negative reinforcements (internal and external) solidify mental state

Ali, Alisha, and Dana C Jack. Introduction: Culture, Self-Silencing, and Depression: A Contextual-Relational Perspective. Silencing the Self Across Cultures: Depression and Gender

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in the Social World. Ed. Ali, Alisha and Dana C Jack. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. 317. Print. Pg 5- A male-centered world tells women who they are or who they should be, especially in intimate relationships. Self-silencing is prescribed by norms, vales, and images dictating what women are supposed to be like: pleasing, unselfish, loving.

Gordon, Richard A. Drugs Dont Talk: Do Medication and Biological Psychiatry Contribute to Silencing the Self? Silencing the Self Across Cultures: Depression and Gender in the Social World. Ed. Ali, Alisha and Dana C Jack. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. 47-72. Print.

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Outline I. II. Introduction Stress a. General b. As related to women III. IV. Symptoms Causes and Solutions a. Physical b. Biological V. Conclusion