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

Barber, Elizabeth Wayland

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0393313484 ISBN 13 : 9780393313482

Editeur : WW Norton & Co, 1996

Synopsis

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 new 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.

A propos du livre

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: WW Norton & Co
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0393313484
• ISBN 13: 9780393313482
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible