Double bind : women on ambition

Book 2017

"Perceptively identifying a paradox at the very heart of feminism, editor Robin Romm has marshaled a stunning constellation of thinkers to examine their relationships with ambition with candor, intimacy and wit"--Jacket.

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Ambition

Feminism

Women Identity

Women in the professions

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ISBN:

9781631491214
1631491210

Edition:

First edition

Description:

viii, 303 pages ; 25 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references

Contents:

Introduction / Robin Romm
Ebenezer laughs back: confessions of a workaholic / Pam Houston
What came next / Theresa Rebeck
On impractical urges / Ayana Mathis
Girl with knife / Camas Davis
Reply all / Robin Romm
Nature and nurture / Marcia Chatelain
Crying in the bathroom / Erika L. Sánchez
Both / Yael Chatav Schonbrun
No happy harmony / Elizabeth Corey
Leaning in, leaning out / Allison Barrett Carter
The price of black ambition / Roxane Gay
Escape velocity / Claire Vaye Watkins
Single lead / Blair Braverman
The Chang girls / Lan Samantha Chang
Goal your own way / Evany Thomas
Astronauts / Nadia P. Manzoor
The snarling girl: notes on ambition / Elisa Albert
Ambitchin' / Julie Holland
Original sin / Francine Prose
Know your place / Molly Ringwald
Ambition: the Cliffie notes / Joan Leegant
Doubly denied / Christina Henríquez
Becoming meta / Hawa Allan
Letters to my mother and daughters on ambition / Sarah Ruhl

LCCN:

2016054987

Control Number:

2101704

Other Authors:

Romm, Robin, editor

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