Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times
A fascinating history of...[a craft] that preceded and made possible civilization itself. —New York Times Book ReviewNew 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 wom…
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- ISBN: 978-0-393-28558-1
- EAN: 9780393285581
- Produktnummer: 34248059
- Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1995
- Seitenangabe: 336 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 7'011 KB
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Elizabeth Wayland Barber is the author of Women's Work, The Dancing Goddesses, and The Mummies of Ürümchi. Professor emerita of archaeology and linguistics at Occidental College, she lives in California.
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