Carol Becker is Professor of the Arts and Dean of Columbia University School of the Arts. She has written many articles and is the author of several books, including Zones of Contention: Essays on Art, Institutions, Gender, and Anxiety; Surpassing the Spectacle: Global Transformations and the Changing Politics of Art; and, most recently, Thinking in Place: Art, Action, and Cultural Production. She is also the editor of The Subversive Imagination: Artists, Society, and Social Responsibility.The Invisible Drama: Women and the Anxiety of Change has been translated into six languages and sold worldwide."A major work that synthesizes experience and scholarship in order to-miraculously-empower women for the future." - B. Ruby Rich, author of Chick Flicks: Theories and Memories of the Feminist Film Movement "The Invisible Drama is a coherent and supportive guide for general readers which explores sources of anxiety, explains psychic resistance to change, and suggests ways to define emotional health and maturity in women's terms." - Library Journal.