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fc417fc802today at 12:29 PM1 replyview on HN

To the best of my knowledge a vanishingly small proportion of historical society was literate and it was an even smaller subset that authored anything of note. It isn't historical women that are invisible it's >90% of everyone. The written accounts are whatever the elite of the elite deigned to write down which those that came after chose to bother preserving.


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bluGilltoday at 12:47 PM

True, but farming was still somewhat visible to many of the elite. The bible (old testament) has a number of farmers who were also elite.

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