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Women's Work

by Elizabeth Wayland Barber

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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Size: 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches; While men dominated early agriculture, women for millennia took primary responsibility for sewing, weaving textiles and making clothing. In this beautifully illustrated study, Barber ( Prehistoric Textiles ) retrieves an important chapter in the history of civilization by drawing on archeological evidence, ancient texts, myths and linguistics to reconstruct women's paramount role in the fiber arts until the start of the late Bronze Age, about 1500 B.C., when, Barber observes, the advent of commercial textiles brought men to the looms. In prehistoric Europe, women invented elaborate textiles with complex designs; women of ancient Anatolia ran cloth-making establishments. Barber begins her saga with the description of a Paleolithic "Venus figure" that dates from about 20, 000 B.C. and is carved wearing a skirt woven of loose strings. Ranging from Egypt to Greece to Sumatra, covering the period from 20, 000-500 B.C., Barber illuminates women's changing social status as makers of cloth and clothing. See more details about Women's Work: the First 20, 000 Years Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times

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Barber, Elizabeth Wayland., W.W. Norton Co., nd (1994), c1994, 1st Edition, boards, fine w/dj, 334 pp w/index & sources, B & W photographic & other illus., tall 8vo, "Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times" See more details about Women's Work, the First 20, 000 Years

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