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

Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times
Title Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times PDF eBook
Author Elizabeth Wayland Barber
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
Pages 344
Release 1995-09-17
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0393285588

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"A fascinating history of…[a craft] that preceded and made possible civilization itself." —New York Times Book Review 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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Norton's Literary Gazette and Publishers' Circular
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Norton's Complete Hand-book of Havana and Cuba
Title Norton's Complete Hand-book of Havana and Cuba PDF eBook
Author Albert James Norton
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Pages 458
Release 1900
Genre History
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Proposed Norton Basin Lease Sale 100

Proposed Norton Basin Lease Sale 100
Title Proposed Norton Basin Lease Sale 100 PDF eBook
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Pages 652
Release 1985
Genre Continental shelf
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Norton Basin Sale No.100
Title Norton Basin Sale No.100 PDF eBook
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Release 1985
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