Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times by Elizabeth Wayland Barber

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

Elizabeth Wayland Barber

336 pages first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history challenging informative slow-paced

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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 toi...

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