...indeed, it's not until very recently that other potentials women have were fulfillalbe for a large part of the population.
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Replying to @gnomeicide
Men have had social mobility a bit longer, yes. But I was looking at Christian history - Augustine to decline of Xtianity as cultural power
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Its certainly true that work patterns in agrarian societies are WAY less gender defined than people expect, of course
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...and women are expected to be out in the fields at various times, and take care of garden crops...
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...even to the point of abstinence to time pregnancy such that childbirth isn't happening at harvest time...
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Replying to @gnomeicide
Sure, although most people only had thin strips of land to feed themselves.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Again, depends :) Before enclosure in the UK your own patch varies widely between what you cultivate and what you share...
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...and at various other times (e.g. Norman invasion) we see radical changes in land access too.
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Replying to @gnomeicide
Yes, of course, but most people were always poor & living on subsistence farming.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
To a large extent. Although demographics more complex than is often assumed (and has a big impact on how men and women are treated I think)
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Well, I don't think I'm assuming but admit I have studied middle-class women who wrote mostly.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
I mostly come at this from the agriculture, technology and food use changes.
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