Necessary dreams : ambition in women's changing lives
Despite the huge advances women have made in recent decades, their ambitions are still undermined in subtle ways. Parents, teachers, bosses, and institutions all give less encouragement to women than men, and women still grow up believing that they must defer to men in order be seen as feminine. If their ambition does survive into adulthood, too often those ambitions must be downsized or abandoned to accommodate "wifely" duties of household chores and child care. As a result, women--unlike men-continually have to re-shape their goals and expectations. In this groundbreaking work, Anna Fels draws on extensive research and years of her psychiatric practice to offer an original and deeply useful examination of ambition in women's lives. In the process, she illuminates just what is necessary for women to articulate--and fulfill--their dreams
Print Book, English, 2005, ©2004
1st Anchor books ed View all formats and editions
Anchor Books, New York, 2005, ©2004
xxi, 297 pages ; 21 cm
9780679758884, 0679758887
57580526
Women and Ambition
What Is Ambition?
Distorted Ambitions
Recognition and Ambition in Women's Lives
Avoiding Attention
Femininity
Why Is Recognition So Important for Ambition?
Unequal Rewards
Pseudo-Recognition: Historical and Contemporary
Parents, Mentors, Institutions, and Peers
Women and Mastery
Developing Skills
Combining Femininity and Mastery
Careers, Marriage, and Family
The Current Dilemma
Careers
Marriage
Children and Careers
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