Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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.