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Women's Work

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

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Av: Elizabeth Wayland Barber
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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 newer 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.

©1994 Elizabeth Wayland Barber (P)2019 Tantor
Archäologie Geschlechterforschung Sozialwissenschaften Welt

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A terrific account on an important and fascinating yet marginalized topic in history. Well told, and dense on information. I regretted when the book came to an end, and started listening right again. Also liked the narration.

What irks me however (and not only for this tile) is the fact, that AUDIBLE does fall short on the service to provide a PDF file with all the images and graphs from the printed book. And these would be important to fully follow the audio book.

Where is the PDF with images and graphs?????

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