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Necessary Dreams: Ambition in Women's Changing Lives

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Availability:In StockContributor:Anna FelsPublish date:2005-02-08Pages:297
Language:EnglishPublisher:Anchor BooksISBN-13:9780679758884ISBN-10:679758887UPC:9780679758884Book Category:Social Science, Business & EconomicsBook Subcategory:Women's Studies, Feminism & Feminist Theory, Women in BusinessSize:8.00 x 5.20 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCPH9BPWWH
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.

Yet expressing ambition, pursuing it, and getting recognition for one's accomplishments is critical to identity and happiness. In this groundbreaking work, Anna Fels draws on extensive research and years of her psychiatriac 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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Anchor BooksISBN-13:9780679758884ISBN-10:679758887UPC:9780679758884Book Category:Social Science, Business & EconomicsBook Subcategory:Women's Studies, Feminism & Feminist Theory, Women in BusinessSize:8.00 x 5.20 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCPH9BPWWH
Anna Fels is a practicing psychiatrist who has written for the New York Times Book Review, the Times Literary Supplement, The Nation, Self, and, most recently, the Science Times section of the New York Times. A member of the faculty of the Weill Medical College of Cornell University at New York Presbyterian Hospital, Fels lives with her husband and two children in New York City.
Publisher: Anchor Books

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