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double bind [bīnd] Etymology: L, duplus, double; AS, bindan, to bind a "no win" situation resulting from two conflicting messages from a person who is crucial to one's survival, such as a verbal message that differs from a nonverbal message. An example is the insistence of a mother that she is not angry about a child's behavior although she is perceived as being obviously angry and hostile. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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In chapters 4 and 5, McManus makes her best contribution in a series of fine readings of passages in books 2, 4, and 6, in which Spenser engages the complexities of the cultural situation of the court ladies, who found themselves in a double bind between the twin cultural imperatives to be irreproachably chaste, and yet put themselves forward to make marriages advantageous to their aristocratic families. The same principal can be used to double bind a defensive end who is playing a 5 technique. In fact, all of us are caught in the double bind of a wave of retirements (an estimated 30,000 over the next three years) and booming enrollments (an estimated increase of about a million students by 2010). |
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