Thursday, June 15, 2006

Social Mistakes and the Historian

I had some people over to dinner tonight and we started talking about women and work. Some one brought up how long women with young children have worked - suggesting that it a very recent phenomenon. Before I could stop myself I had launched into a lecture on women's roles in families and how society has viewed children since the colonial period to today. What a smuck. Sometimes I wonder how historians ever convince anyone to date/procreate with them. :P
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4 comments:

  1. KatrinaJune 16, 2006 at 1:17 PM

    I'm curious as to what this lecture entailed...

    Historians procreate because people like me, who love these rants, fall for them...

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  2. FadzilahJune 19, 2006 at 6:17 PM

    Sometimes people like it when we lecture, but just won't admit it. That's how I delude myself.

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  3. drhistoryJune 22, 2006 at 5:38 AM

    That is a good way to think about it fadzilah. Now I just to find someone too polite to roll their eyes. :)

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  4. LarryJuly 18, 2006 at 10:12 AM

    Eliot West, in the intro to one of his books, relays his wife's complaint that he can't tell her about a new stop light on main street "without beginning at the Magna Carta."

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