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.
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. Barber, Elizabeth Wayland (Occidental College) More by this author.15. Twenty thousand years ago, women were making and wearing the first clothing created from spun fibers. Womens Work : The First 20,000 Years Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times. ASIN: B00Z03ED00 Edition language: English Average rating: 4.36 (157 ratings. by Elizabeth Wayland Barber (Author) 505 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 9.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. Editions for Womens Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times: 0393313484 (Paperback published in 1995). New discoveries about the textile arts reveal women's unexpectedly influential role in ancient societies. Elizabeth Wayland Barber Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times First Paperback Edition. Elizabeth Wayland Barber has drawn from data gathered by the most sophisticated new archaeological methodsmethods she herself helped to fashion.
that preceded and made possible civilization itself." -New York Times Book Review
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