Raising children can be a heroic choice. And not seeing it as such is also a choice. :D Yes!
Witchcraft confessions are some of the few extant narratives by illiterate women in that place and time. That's really rough.
In some times, if a husband died, his wife would take over his trade and be admitted to the guild. I'd never heard of that!
People see everything pre-Meiji as dystopian. People didn’t have that many children, so we think it was because everything was horrible. It was actually very prosperous. People deliberately limited births to limit household disruption. Or of this! History is always cooler than I know. :)
There’s a narrative I think of as “The Hollywood Victorian Middle Ages.” George R. R. Martin writes a lot of interesting female characters in varied roles, but the gender roles aren’t actually medieval – they’re 1970s. This made me laugh, in light of watching HBO's Games of Thrones! :D
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Date: 2013-10-15 06:51 pm (UTC)Raising children can be a heroic choice. And not seeing it as such is also a choice. :D Yes!
Witchcraft confessions are some of the few extant narratives by illiterate women in that place and time. That's really rough.
In some times, if a husband died, his wife would take over his trade and be admitted to the guild. I'd never heard of that!
People see everything pre-Meiji as dystopian. People didn’t have that many children, so we think it was because everything was horrible. It was actually very prosperous. People deliberately limited births to limit household disruption. Or of this! History is always cooler than I know. :)
There’s a narrative I think of as “The Hollywood Victorian Middle Ages.” George R. R. Martin writes a lot of interesting female characters in varied roles, but the gender roles aren’t actually medieval – they’re 1970s. This made me laugh, in light of watching HBO's Games of Thrones! :D