Women are producers of history, not mere victims of it.

Evidence

But women are not, in any fundamental sense, mere victims of hisrory; much more centrally, women have survived against very heavy odds, and they haveproducedhisrory. Madness, sexual frenzy, nullity of being, fevers of the brain, have been, by and large, very uncommon; the vast majority of women have consistently performed productive (and not only reproductive) labour; and, like those men who also do productive work, they have retained with society and history a relation that is essentially imaginative, visionary, communal and regenerative. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 595

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Women have mostly produced history through productive labor, not suffered madness — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 260; Woman is a historical situation, not an immutable essence — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 675; Woman’s apparent naturalness is itself a product of history (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Woman is a historical situation, not an immutable essence #expands (0.88) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 675
• Women have mostly produced history through productive labor, not suffered madness #expands (0.85) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 260
• Pre-colonial women warlords were feminists through acts, not labels #exemplifies (0.82)
• Woman’s apparent naturalness is itself a product of history #expands (0.80)
• Women’s historical perception as non-agentic shapes expectations about their success #complicates (0.75)