DOUBLE BIND


Meaning of DOUBLE BIND in English

noun

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A former book dealer, he remains seduced by the double bind of academic arcana and financial chicanery.

But now division heads are in a double bind .

Exactly the same double bind is encountered in any theorization of racial difference.

Hence the double bind attached to being appropriately feminine rears its ugly head again.

This is not necessarily liberating: it may just be a double bind .

Thus is the reporter put in a classic double bind .

Used together these two strategies comprise that peculiar language game known as a double bind .

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