About the Author:
Kathleen Hall Jamieson is Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Dirty Politics, Packaging the Presidency (winner of the Winans-Wichelns Book Award), and Eloquence in an Electronic Age which won the Speech Communication Association's Golden Anniversary Award.
From Library Journal:
Jamieson, dean of the Annenberg School of Communications, University of Pennsylvania, and author of several works (e.g., Dirty Politics: Deception, Distraction & Democracy, Oxford Univ. Pr., 1992), has written another thoroughly researched, well-crafted book. She identifies five double binds, or Catch-22s, for women; explains their origins; and examines their influence on women's lives and careers. For example, the femininity/competence bind posits, "Women who are considered feminine will be judged incompetent, and women who are competent, unfeminine." Jamieson takes the reader "beyond the double bind" by providing concrete examples of how notable women have overcome these barriers to success. She adroitly makes her points using humor as a tool. Focusing more attention on breaking the binds, rather than on the binds themselves, would have strengthened the book. Still, this substantive work makes a significant contribution to feminist literature. Essential for academic and large public libraries.
Nancy Myers, Univ. of South Dakota Lib., Vermillion
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