{"id":60,"date":"2007-03-27T12:34:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-27T17:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=60"},"modified":"2007-03-27T12:34:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-27T17:34:00","slug":"my-next-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2007\/03\/27\/my-next-one\/","title":{"rendered":"My next one&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/RgvempxnZ4I\/AAAAAAAAAEU\/05zRvs4C-W0\/s1600-h\/books-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/RgvempxnZ4I\/AAAAAAAAAEU\/05zRvs4C-W0\/s200\/books-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Friends have started to ask me what I&#8217;m working on next. I&#8217;m thinking of working on a book with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.woodhull.org\">Woodhull Institute for Ethical Leadership<\/a>.  As such, I&#8217;ve been scouring the shelves for books on women and leadership.  (If you know of any good ones, please send me a post!)  <\/p>\n<p>As far as I can tell so far, the few books on leadership aimed at women seem to focus on ambition, promise power, and encourage readers to cultivate a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153bad girl\u00e2\u20ac\u009d attitude in order to achieve it.  Their titles are telling: <i>Why Good Girls Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Get Ahead But Gutsy Girls Do<\/i>, by Kate White.  <i>Kiss My Tiara: How to Rule the World as a SmartMouth Goddess<\/i> by Susan Jane Gilman. And most recently, <i>Am-BITCH-ous: Learn to Be Her Now<\/i> by Debra Condren.  I have to say, I love absorbing these books and more or less laud their bad-ass bad-girlness.  But I have two qualms with this general approach:  <\/p>\n<p>1) Teaching women to be smartmouthed goddesses or gutsy and amBITCHous can&#8217;t take place in a vaccuum.  It&#8217;s not just inner change, but external change that&#8217;s needed (the personal is STILL political, no?)  <\/p>\n<p>2) These titles leave me wondering, is it possible to claim ambition as a virtue for women without having to claim ourselves as &#8220;bitches&#8221;? <\/p>\n<p>I welcome any thoughts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends have started to ask me what I&#8217;m working on next. I&#8217;m thinking of working on a book with the Woodhull Institute for Ethical Leadership. As such, I&#8217;ve been scouring the shelves for books on women and leadership. (If you know of any good ones, please send me a post!) As far as I can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21938],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-worklife"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}