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Apr 11, 2017 · Double Bind: Women on Ambition. Robin Romm (Editor) 3.85. 472 ratings85 reviews. Even as toweringly successful women from Gloria Steinem to Beyoncé embrace the word "feminism," the word "ambition," for many, remains loaded with ambivalence. Women who are naturally driven and goal-oriented shy away from it.
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Apr 11, 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. Roxane Gay discusses how race informs and feeds her ambition.
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Apr 11, 2017 · Liveright Publishing, Apr 11, 2017 - Social Science - 336 pages. “Bold, absorbing, insightful, and wise. . . . Read it: the truth is inside.”—. Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild and Tiny Beautiful...
Apr 11, 2017 · Women who have made landmark achievements in fields as diverse as law, dog sledding, and butchery weigh in, breaking the last feminist taboo once and for all. “Both intimate and scalable” (Atlantic.com), Double Bind finally seizes “ambition” from the roster of dirty words. Read more. Print length. 313 pages.
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Jan 12, 2023 · English. viii, 303 pages ; 25 cm. "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. Includes bibliographical references.
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Taken together, these essays show women from a range of backgrounds and at all stages of their lives and careers grappling with aspiration, failure, achievement, guilt, and, yes, success. Forthright and empowering, Double Bind breaks a long silence, reclaiming "ambition" from the roster of dirty words at last.
