women’s labor – Samir Chopra

Academics And Their Secretaries

In the preface to The Age of Revolution 1789-1848 (Signet Classic, New York, 1962, p. xvi) Eric Hobsbawm writes: Miss P. Ralph helped considerably as secretary and research assistant Miss E. Mason compiled the index. In the preface to the new edition (1969) of Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments (University of Stanford Press, Cultural Memory in the PresentContinue reading “Academics And Their Secretaries”

The Convenient Construction Of The Public-Private Distinction

Revolutions are public affairs; revolutionaries bring them about. They fight in the streets, they ‘man’ the barricades, they push back the forces of reaction. And then, they go home for the night, to a meal and a warm bed. There, they rest and recuperate, recharging the batteries of uprising, ready to battle again the nextContinue reading “The Convenient Construction Of The Public-Private Distinction”