A series exploring the forgotten social infrastructure women built, how it collapsed, and how it will re‑emerge as communities rebuild.
Small World Women
The small world collapsed. The civic labor women once performed with pride was reclassified as unpaid domestic work and then forgotten. This essay traces how the erasure happened, and why the modern world misreads what women actually did.
Small World Women
Women weren’t passive. They governed the small world through social infrastructure: organizing, stabilizing, remembering, and coordinating the civic life of families, churches, and neighborhoods. This essay restores the truth of what they actually did.