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Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years Women, Cloth, and Society in Early
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Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times Paperback - 1995

by Elizabeth Wayland Barber

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New discoveries about the textile arts reveal women's unexpectedly influential role in ancient societies. Barber "weaves the strands of mythology and literature, archaeology, ethnology, and documented history into a rich tapestry" says John Noble Wilford, New York Times Book Review. Photos and drawings. Author lectures.

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New discoveries about the textile arts reveal women's unexpectedly influential role in ancient societies.

Twenty thousand years ago, women were making and wearing the first clothing created from spun fibers. In fact, right up to the Industrial Revolution the fiber arts were an enormous economic force, belonging primarily to women.

Despite the great toil required in making cloth and clothing, most books on ancient history and economics have no information on them. Much of this gap results from the extreme perishability of what women produced, but it seems clear that until now descriptions of prehistoric and early historic cultures have omitted virtually half the picture.

Elizabeth Wayland Barber has drawn from data gathered by the most sophisticated new archaeological methods--methods she herself helped to fashion. In a "brilliantly original book" (Katha Pollitt, Washington Post Book World), she argues that women were a powerful economic force in the ancient world, with their own industry: fabric.

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For millennia women have sat together spinning, weaving, and sewing.

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  • Title Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times
  • Author Elizabeth Wayland Barber
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition New edition
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher W. W. Norton & Company, New York
  • Publication date September 1995
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780393313482 / 0393313484
  • Weight 0.58 lbs (0.26 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.9 in (21.08 x 13.97 x 2.29 cm)
  • Reading level 1360
  • Category Sociology
  • Library of Congress subjects Textile fabrics, Ancient, Women - History
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 00000000
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.4
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