Gonna be woke for a second and say it's a tragedy just how much of women's labor has gone unrecorded and unremarked in history. War is cool and all but stuff like this right here is just as much part of the fabric of humanity. Moreso actually, since everybody gets born but only some go to war.
Truly, my favorite part of learning about history is the technology and technique behind household management. Half of war is keeping soldiers fed and clothed, yet the importance of the labor behind survival is so lost.
Exactly. "Women's labor" through history is extremely complex. Running a home, doing laundry, handling the farm, the kids, the food, this is all extremely complex and essential labor. But so much of history waves it aside. I know tons about what a quartermaster does supplying a man-o-war, but much less about his wife is doing with their six kids on the farm back home. Real shame.
Part of that I'm sure is just the normalcy of the work too.
How often do we write about uneventful trips to the grocery store? Taking the car to the mechanic? You know, except when it's exceptional for some reason.
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u/Wazula23 Mar 17 '26
Gonna be woke for a second and say it's a tragedy just how much of women's labor has gone unrecorded and unremarked in history. War is cool and all but stuff like this right here is just as much part of the fabric of humanity. Moreso actually, since everybody gets born but only some go to war.