Double bind
Subtitle: women on ambition
By: edited by Robin Romm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9781631491214
Subjects: Ambition; Women; Identity; Feminism; Women in the professions
Other titles: Women on ambition
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction  -- Robin Romm; title: Ebenezer laughs back : confessions of a workaholic  -- Pam Houston; title: What came next  -- Theresa Rebeck; title: On impractical urges  -- Ayana Mathis; title: Girl with knife  -- Camas Davis; title: Reply all  -- Robin Romm; title: Nature and nurture  -- Marcia Chatelain; title: Crying in the bathroom  -- Erika L. Sánchez; title: Both  -- Yael Chatav Schonbrun; title: No happy harmony  -- Elizabeth Corey; title: Leaning in, leaning out  -- Allison Barrett Carter; title: The price of black ambition  -- Roxane Gay; title: Escape velocity  -- Claire Vaye Watkins; title: Single lead  -- Blair Braverman; title: The Chang girls  -- Lan Samantha Chang; title: Goal your own way  -- Evany Thomas; title: Astronauts  -- Nadia P. Manzoor; title: The snarling girl: notes on ambition  -- Elisa Albert; title: Ambitchin'  -- Julie Holland; title: Original sin  -- Francine Prose; title: Know your place  -- Molly Ringwald; title: Ambition : the Cliffie notes  -- Joan Leegant; title: Doubly denied  -- Christina Henríquez; title: Becoming meta  -- Hawa Allan; title: Letters to my mother and daughters on ambition -- Sarah Ruhl.