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Housekeeping (at home and work)

October 18, 2017October 18, 2017 / AgnesBosanquet / 5 Comments

This post is a way of exploring some contradictory thinking about housekeeping. In my last post on strategies for working during tough times, the small, shallow, short-term tasks I identified can be understood as a type of academic housekeeping. At work, as at home, women tend to do more of it, and it holds less … Continue reading Housekeeping (at home and work)

Voices from the living past

March 21, 2022March 21, 2022 / AgnesBosanquet / 5 Comments

“I think that a mother owes this to her children: to keep in contact with the rest of the world.” This is the comment of a woman university student that was aired on Australian television in January 1961. My father shared the re-released recording from the ABC program A Woman’s Place. Questions include: Do the … Continue reading Voices from the living past

Everyday life

April 20, 2020July 9, 2021 / AgnesBosanquet / 3 Comments

A lot has happened in the world since my last post, and yet I’m writing from inside the same walls. In Australia, most people are experiencing COVID-19 through the disruption of social distancing, rather than proximity to illness and mortality. My condolences to those who have lost people close to them. Here, we are schooling … Continue reading Everyday life

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