Success and Satisfaction. Reconciling Women's Public Private Selves

London England: Paladin, 1988. Paperback. Ambivalence towards the public world is one of the most powerful obstacles to achievement, not least because it is so difficult to define and to recognise. Women are particularly torn between fulfilment and achievement. Drawn to the cult of success because it seems to offer them validation, they are also acutely aware of a gulf between their public and private lives. Where the public world is instrumental, simple and unambiguous, the private realm is subtle, diverse and full of anomalies. Yet the two coexist in everyday experience and recent shifts in the boundaries betweeen public and private offer new opportunities to integrate the two. This is a study of the masks and personae people use to venture into the public realm, of the cult of success which dominates it, of the deep unease often felt by those who sacrifice private values for career success. This book is a fascinating and original examination of why many women fail to rise, looking at the experience of women who operate successfully in the worlds of business, entertainment and the arts, attempting to identify patterns of self-sabotage - and to draw useful conclusions for contemporary women who wish to act effectively in the world of work, without feeling overwhelmed by its demands. 315 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.). . 1st Paperback Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Paperback.