Foreword / Rosalynn Carter
Preface / Corey Keyes and Sherryl Goodman
Part I: Nosology, measurement, and the epidemiology of women and depression
Depression : from nosology to global burden / Kay Wilhelm
Epidemiology of depression in women / Ronald Kessler
Part II: Biological, developmental, and aging models of risk
The biology underpinnings of depression / Ania Korszun, Margaret Altemus, and Elizabeth Young
Depressive disorders in women : from menarche to beyond the menopause / Wendy Somerset ... [et al.]
Does puberty account for the gender differential in depression? / Laura M. DeRose, A. Jordan Wright, and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
Women's aging and depression / Brenda Penninx
Part III: Cognitive, emotional, and interpersonal models of risk
Cognition and depression / Joan Girgus and Susan Nolen-Hoeksema
Personality and depression in women / Thomas A. Widiger, Stephanie Mullins-Sweatt, and Kristen G. Anderson
The social costs of stress : how sex differences in stress responses can lead to social stress vulnerability and depression in women / Laura Cousino Klein, Elizabeth J. Corwin, and Rachel M. Ceballos
Marriage and depression / Mark A. Whisman, Lauren M. Weinstock, and Natalie Tolejko
Depression in women who are mothers : an integrative model of risk for the development of psychopathology in their sons and daughters / Sherryl H. Goodman and Erin Tully
Part IV: Social, political, and economic models of risk
Social suffering, gender, and women's depression / Jeanne Marecek
Women, work, and depression : conceptual and policy issues / Mary Clare Lennon
Culture, race/ethnicity, and depression / Pamela Braboy Jackson and David Williams
Trauma and depression / Kristin M. Penza, Christine Heim and Charles Nemeroff
Public health approach to depression and women : the case of the disadvantaged inner-city woman / Claire E. Sterk, Katherine P. Theall, and Kirk W. Elifson
Part V: Systems and processes of treatment, prevention, and policy
Services and treatment for depression : international perspectives and implications for a gender-sensitive approach / Shekhar Saxena and Pratap Sharan
Prevention of depression in women / Tamar Mendelson and Ricardo F. Muñoz
Women and depression : research, theory, and social policies / Jean Hamilton and Nancy F. Russo.
Women and depression : a handbook for the social, behavioral, and biomedical sciences. ISBN 9780521539289. Published by Cambridge University Press in 2006. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.