November 2011
19 posts
Nov 15th
Nov 15th
Foreign tourists are coming up to me on the streets and asking, “Marilyn, you have so many different kinds of inequality in your country. How can I tell which are socially acceptable and which are not?”
Nov 11th
Nov 11th
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Nov 9th
Nov 5th
More, More, More
[She] advised women to overcome a man’s passion for clubs with “a passion of a different nature, which Providence has kindly planted within us; I mean, by inspiring [a man] with the love of fireside enjoyment.”
Nov 5th
“My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on...”
Nov 5th
Nov 5th
What is an apparatus? →
The translators of this short book invited me last year to a conference on politics and morality. Naturally, I was curious, but then they insisted I act as discussant to this Giorgio fellow — an Italian. I hadn’t heard of him, and to be honest, I couldn’t make heads or tails of his prose. Not recommended.
Nov 4th
“Family is a collective expression of individual perspectives — a living work of...”
– Wes Fessler
Nov 4th
Nov 4th
“How is our definition of panic related to other meanings which have been...”
Nov 3rd
Nov 3rd
Nov 2nd
Nov 2nd
“Characteristically wide-ranging, original, and theoretically sophisticated...”
Nov 2nd
Just a note to mention that someone is impersonating me on the subject of homeopathy. I’ve been unable to get the fraudulent posts removed.
Nov 2nd
Nov 2nd
Nov 1st
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Nov 1st
Re-reading Arlie Hochschild tonight
Emotional work / Do you think this is easy? / Alienated / From my own feelings
Nov 1st
Nov 1st