Beyond the double bind : women and leadership
"I can remember," says lawyer Flo Kennedy, "going to court in pants and the judge remarking that I wasn't properly dressed, that the next time I came to court I should be dressed like a lawyer." It was a moment painfully familiar to countless women: a demand that she conform to a stereotype of feminine dress and behavior - which would also mark her as an intruder, rising above her assigned station (as the saying goes, she dared to "wear the pants" in the courtroom). Kennedy took one look at the judge's robe - essentially "a long black dress gathered at the yoke"--And said, "Judge, if you won't talk about what I'm wearing, I won't talk about what you're wearing."
ix, 283 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780195089400, 9780195115727, 0195089405, 0195115724
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The binds that tie,
Hillary Clinton as Rorschach test,
Double bind number one: womb/brain,
Double bind number two: silence/shame,
Double bind number three: sameness/difference,
Double bind number four: femininity/competence,
Double bind number five: aging/invisibility,
Newsbinds,
The stories we tell