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UNCORRECTED ADVANCE READING COPY NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION This advance reader’s copy has been distributed by Oxford University Press for promotional and advance review purposes only. No copying, sale, or further distribution or transmission of this digital galley, in whole or part, is allowed, except to others on your staff and/or assigned reviewers for preview purposes only. This preview copy will NOT expire. However, we do ask that you use a finished copy of the book for fact-checking purposes. Please contact Oxford University Press for more information about this book/author or to request a finished book. 212.726.6033 or [email protected] One Nation Under Stress 0000__BBeecckkeerr__PPrreelliimmss..iinndddd 11 1100//11//22001122 55::5500::1111 PPMM 0000__BBeecckkeerr__PPrreelliimmss..iinndddd 22 1100//11//22001122 55::5500::1111 PPMM One Nation Under Stress The Trouble with Stress as an Idea Dana Becker 1 0000__BBeecckkeerr__PPrreelliimmss..iinndddd 33 1100//11//22001122 55::5500::1111 PPMM 1 Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford New York Auckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto With offi ces in Argentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore South Korea Switzerland Th ailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Oxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press in the UK and certain other countries. Published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016 © Oxford University Press 2013 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitt ed, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitt ed by law, by license, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reproduction rights organization. Inquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above. You must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Becker, Dana.One nation under stress : social uses of the stress concept / Dana Becker. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978–0–19–974291–2 (hardback : alk. paper) ISBN 978–0–19–997177–0 (updf) ISBN 978–0–19–997178–7 (epub) 1. Stress (Psychology) 2. Stress management—21st century. 3. Post-traumatic stress disorder. I. Title.BF575.S75B343 2013 155.9’0420973–dc232012029879 ISBN 978-0-19-974291-2 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper 0000__BBeecckkeerr__PPrreelliimmss..iinndddd 44 1100//11//22001122 55::5500::1111 PPMM For my mother , Bett y Becker 0000__BBeecckkeerr__PPrreelliimmss..iinndddd 55 1100//11//22001122 55::5500::1111 PPMM 0000__BBeecckkeerr__PPrreelliimmss..iinndddd 66 1100//11//22001122 55::5500::1111 PPMM CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix Chapter 1 Stress: Th e New Black Death? 1 Chapter 2 Gett ing and Spending: Th e Wear and Tear of Modern Life 19 Chapter 3 Stress and the Biopolitics of American Society 49 Chapter 4 Mars and Venus Stress Out, Naturally 76 Chapter 5 Th e Other Mommy War: Stress and the Working Mother 114 Chapter 6 Postt raumatic Stress Disorder and the War for Mental Health 1 48 Chapter 7 Aft erword: Vulnerability Reexamined 182 Notes 187 0000__BBeecckkeerr__PPrreelliimmss..iinndddd 77 1100//11//22001122 55::5500::1111 PPMM 0000__BBeecckkeerr__PPrreelliimmss..iinndddd 88 1100//11//22001122 55::5500::1122 PPMM ACKNOWLEDGMENTS M any people have supported this project. Special thanks go to Jeanne Marecek, Eva Magnusson, and Sharon Lamb. Th ere are others to thank whose encouragement for my work over the years has been truly heartening: Frank Richardson, Nicola Gavey, Rachel Hare- Mustin, Paula Caplan, Leonore Tiefer. Even though she was not there at the fi nish, Maura Roessner, my fi rst editor at Oxford, was enthusiastic about this project from its incipient stages and helped shepherd it- and me—through the process from proposal to the fi rst draft chapters. Many thanks to Dana Bliss and Nicholas Liu, who took over and made the book’s trajectory from draft manuscript to publication a seamless one. Th anks also to Jillian Graves for her research assistance on Chapter 6. I could not have completed the book without generous leaves funded by Bryn Mawr College and supported by Dean Darlyne Bailey and Provost Kim Cassidy. And, as always, my love and thanks to Stan. 0000__BBeecckkeerr__PPrreelliimmss..iinndddd 99 1100//11//22001122 55::5500::1122 PPMM
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