DOUBLE BIND

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Double Bind could not come at a more urgent time. Even as major figures from Gloria Steinem to Beyoncé embrace the word ''feminism,'' the word ''ambition'' remains loaded with ambi valence. Many women see it as synonymous with strident or aggressive, yet most feel compelled to strive and achieve-the seeming contradiction leaving them in a perpetual double bind. 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. Show more