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

Barber, Elizabeth Wayland

 
9780393035063: Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years : Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0393035069 ISBN 13 : 9780393035063
Editeur : WW Norton & Co, 1994

Synopsis

2500 years ago, the women of Athens slaved at home, virtual prisoners of their husbands, expected to provide the cloth and clothing for their family. 4000 years ago in ancient Mesopotamia, there was a very different picture: respectable women were in business, weaving textiles at home to be sold abroad for gold and silver. Going back even further, 20,000 years ago women began making and wearing the first clothing created from spun fibres. Indeed, for over 20,000 years, until the Industrial Revolution, the arts of weaving belonged primarily to women and were the principal vehicle for demonstrating their various roles as mother, provider, worker, entrepreneur and artist.

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À propos de l'auteur

Elizabeth Wayland Barber is the author of Prehistoric Textiles, The Mummies of Ürümchi, and The Dancing Goddesses, among other works. She is professor emerita of archaeology and linguistics at Occidental College, and lives in Utah.

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Éditeur
WW Norton & Co
Date d'édition
1994
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0393035069
ISBN 13 
9780393035063
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
192
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  0393313484 ISBN 13 :  9780393313482
Editeur : WW Norton & Co, 1995
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