by Elizabeth Wayland Barber (Author) 505 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 9.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. 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. Elizabeth Wayland Barber Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times First Paperback Edition. 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. Elizabeth Wayland Barber has drawn from data gathered by the most sophisticated newer archaeological methods - methods she herself helped to fashion. 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.Įlizabeth Wayland Barber has drawn from data gathered by the most sophisticated new archaeological methods-methods she herself helped to fashion. In fact, right up to the Industrial Revolution the fiber arts were an enormous economic force, belonging primarily to women.ĭespite the great toil required in making cloth and clothing, most books on ancient history and economics have no information on them. Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years : Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times Elizabeth Jane Wayland Barber (Linguistin, Archologin, USA) W.W.
Twenty thousand years ago, women were making and wearing the first clothing created from spun fibers. Some years ago, she began to study ancient textiles.
New discoveries about the textile arts reveal women's unexpectedly influential role in ancient societies. Elizabeth Barber, the author of Womens Work, The First 20,000 Years, loves to weave and work with cloth.
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