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Double bind : women on ambition / edited by Robin Romm.

First edition.

New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, [2017]

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.

Ambition.

Women -- Identity.

Women in the professions.

Feminism.

Romm, Robin, editor.

Includes bibliographical references.

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.

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