double bind

ˌdouble ˈbind noun [countableC usually singular]

BADa situation in which any choice you make will have bad results 进退两难的困境

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double bind• Used together these two strategies comprise that peculiar language game known as a double bind.• This is not necessarily liberating: it may just be a double bind.• But now division heads are in a double bind.• Thus is the reporter put in a classic double bind.• Exactly the same double bind is encountered in any theorization of racial difference.• A former book dealer, he remains seduced by the double bind of academic arcana and financial chicanery.• Hence the double bind attached to being appropriately feminine rears its ugly head again.

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