Librería Samer Atenea
Kálamo Books
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
The book opens by situating occupational stress within the wider 'double burden' carried by working women in India: the expectation that women perform as fully committed professionals while retaining full responsibility for domestic and caregiving work. Female academics occupy a particularly acute version of this position. Among the most highly educated women in the country, they nonetheless face continuous pressure from research output, teaching, administration, and academic-calendar workload surges, layered on top of unchanged domestic expectations.Grounding this in theory, the book surveys the major frameworks of stress and burnout, from Cannon’s fight-or-flight response and Selye’s General Adaptation Syndrome through Lazarus’s cognitive appraisal model, the Job Demand-Control model, Effort-Reward Imbalance theory, and the Maslach Burnout Inventory, before turning to Shelley Taylor’s 'tend-and-befriend' model, which the book argues is especially relevant to how women regulate stress through social connection.
