Women's Work by Elizabeth Wayland Barber

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. Norton & Company, 23 (334pp) ISBN 978-6-3 While men dominated. 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.Įlizabeth Wayland Barber has drawn from data gathered by the most sophisticated new archaeological methods-methods she herself helped to fashion. Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times Elizabeth Wayland Barber.

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. In fact, right up to the Industrial Revolution the fiber arts were an enormous economic force, belonging primarily to women.ĭespite the great toil required in making cloth and clothing, most books on ancient history and economics have no information on them. Elizabeth Wayland Barber has drawn from data gathered by the most sophisticated new archaeological methodsmethods she herself helped to fashion. Elizabeth Wayland Barber has drawn from data gathered by the most sophisticated new archaeological methodsmethods she herself helped to fashion. Womens Work New discoveries about the textile arts reveal womens unexpectedly influential role in ancient societies. Twenty thousand years ago, women were making and wearing the first clothing created from spun fibers. Elizabeth Wayland Barber has drawn from data gathered by the most sophisticated new archaeological methodsmethods she herself helped to fashion.

Some years ago, she began to study ancient textiles. New discoveries about the textile arts reveal women’s unexpectedly influential role in ancient societies. Womens Work: The First 20,000 Years, a book by Elizabeth Wayland Barber Womens Work: Modern Women Poets Writing in English, a 2008 anthology co-edited by Eva. Elizabeth Barber, the author of Womens Work, The First 20,000 Years, loves to weave and work with cloth.

Women's Work by Elizabeth Wayland Barber