>but Sale, who for years had been churning out books complaining about modernity and urging a return to a subsistence economy, It is generally men who talk abo

>but Sale, who for years had been churning out books complaining about modernity and urging a return to a subsistence economy, It is generally men who talk about how great the subsistence economy was. For women, a subsistence economy was hellish. There was no reliable birth control, maternal/infant mortality was high, everything depended on physical strength which gave men an advantage due to their larger size and higher musculature on average, and the system demanded lots of children, so women spent much of their lives pregnant and/or caring for small children. Many of these cultures (see Papua New Guinea for example) have huge amounts of violence against women.