{"product_id":"womens-work-the-first-20-000-years-women-cloth-and-society-in-early-times-revised","title":"Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times (Revised)","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eWomen's Work: The First 20,000 Years Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times (Revised)\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eElizabeth Wayland Barber\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e0393313484\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eW. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1995\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Paperback Edition.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e336\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eNew discoveries about the textile arts reveal women's unexpectedly influential role in ancient societies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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, \u003cem\u003eWashington Post Book World\u003c\/em\u003e), she argues that women were a powerful economic force in the ancient world, with their own industry: fabric.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times (Revised) | Elizabeth Wayland Barber | Paperback | 0393313484 | Used: Very Good | Back Stacks C 1759473","offer_id":49199692054680,"sku":"1759473","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/7142vF0j0ZL.jpg?v=1780697391","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/womens-work-the-first-20-000-years-women-cloth-and-society-in-early-times-revised","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}