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Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times by Elizabeth Wayland Barber (Paperback, 1996)

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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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PublisherWW Norton & Co

ISBN-139780393313482

eBay Product ID (ePID)89054004

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Number of Pages336 Pages

Publication NameWomen's Work: the First 20000 Years Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times

LanguageEnglish

SubjectHistory

Publication Year1996

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaGender Issues

AuthorElizabeth Wayland Barber

FormatPaperback

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Item Height211 mm

Item Weight266 g

Item Width140 mm

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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States

Title_AuthorElizabeth Wayland Barber

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