The New Work of Composing

 
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NYMA:

Mother Always Said

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This is the argument I have been trying to make my whole academic life, and I am finally gathering the words to be able to do so:


We are stuck in a sea of overwhelming choices, and we only get to have a moment every now and again with just the right person whose choices have, randomly accidentally-on-purpose by way of the universe, lined up with ours for just a minute so that we actually communicate with them—this random act of conversation only happens about sixteen times in our lifetime—and the academy tells us that what we ought to do at that one moment of potential communication is argue.


Really, this is why we are the most emotionally isolated people on earth.

 

“Work and family, research and the caring of children, thereby remain separate worlds, and in keeping them apart, women continue to carry the burden of the home.” (Lil Brannon, 1993, p. 463)

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

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Separate worlds