double bind

They wish this, and have put us in a double bind.

The Council's action puts the city in a double bind.

Thus is the reporter put in a classic double bind.

A double bind is a Catch-22, a trap in which all possible choices are bad.

The study also suggests that many working-class families are caught in a double bind.

The flexibility of the academic schedule can itself be a double bind for new parents.

Many liberal Catholics, myself included, have put him in a rather interesting double bind.

Women who suffer from oppression due to race may find themselves in a double bind.

I'd got myself into a double bind, and there was no way out.'

We can't subject kids to that kind of double bind."

Double bind: The foundation of the communicational approach to the family.

But now division heads are in a double bind.

He did say, though, that the victim of the double bind in the prophecy is Richard.

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

This represents a double bind because both perceptions paint women in a negative light.

At present workers are in a double bind.

How women choose to react to this double bind situation will affect their experience in the workplace.

That is where the double bind comes in.

The President was caught in a double bind - Reagan's revenge.

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

It's a double bind, appropriate to the topsy-turvy, blind nature of love.

Double bind - a forced choice between two logically conflicting demands.

Life has become a tangle of psychological double binds.

Universities can find themselves in a double bind.