<p>Ralph Turner, »Role Theory—A Series of Propositions«, Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (New York: Macmillan and the Free Press, 1968). These ideas are incorporated in »Role: sociological Aspects«, Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences.</p>

<p>Marvine B. Sussman, »Relationships of Adult Children with Their Parents in the United States«, in Ethel Shanas and Cordon Streib, eds., Social Structure and the Family: General Relations (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1965).&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p>See my forthcoming chapter on »The Sociology of Depressive Disorders«, in Current Perspectives in Psychiatric Sociology, eds. Paul Roman and Harrison Trice (Science House, 1971) for a further discussion of this point.</p>

<p>Ibid., p. 7.</p>

<p>Ibid., p. 6.</p>

<p>Ibid., p. 5.</p>

<p>Inge K. Broverman et al., »Sex-Role Stereotypes and Clinical Judgments of Mental Health,« Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 34 (February 1970): 6</p>

<p>Even psychoanalysts are now coming to recognize that »it is possible that the analyst's view of a successful analysis may be skewed if he feels that he has reached the core of a womans femininity when he has been able to get her to share with equanimity his belief that she is really an inferior form of male. Robert J. Stoller, Sex and Gender (New York- Science House, 1968), p. 63</p>

<p>Winnifred Burt Johnson and Lewis M. Terman, »Personality Characteristics of Happily Married, Unhappily Married, Mid Divorced Persons,« Character and Personality 2 (June 1935): 304-305</p>

<p>Sick standards are by no means new phenomena. In the nineteenth century, consumption was a romantic trait in women; the most famous heroine of the stage was Camille, romantically dying of consumption. Girls fainted adorably on any appropriate occasion and earthy good health was even embarrassing. Dora's helplessness was enthralling to David Copperfield - at first Epileptic seizures, hallucinations, and visions are reported by anthropologists as valued characteristics in some cultures.</p>