Women have mostly produced history through productive labor, not suffered madness

Evidence

But women are not, in any fundamental sense, mere victims of history; much more centrally, women have survived against very heavy odds, and they have produced history. 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, 260

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Women are producers of history, not mere victims of it. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 595; Premodern European women of all classes performed substantial productive economic labor — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology,…, 605

Related

• Women are producers of history, not mere victims of it. (similarity 0.94)
• Premodern European women of all classes performed substantial productive economic labor (similarity 0.82)