Ambition : for what /
Deborah L. Rhode.
- 1 online resource (336 pages).
- Oxford scholarship online .
- Oxford scholarship online. .
Also issued in print: 2021.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This is a lively account of ambition, and the forces driving and constraining it. It explores the toxic aspect of preoccupations with recognition, power and money, and how society, families and schools can help shape positive ambition. The book also It also explores the influence of gender, race, class, and national origin, and prods individuals to think more deeply about the forces driving their ambitions and whether those ambitions meet their deepest needs and aspirations.