An edition of Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years (1994)

Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years

Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times

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An edition of Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years (1994)

Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years

Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times

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  • ★★★★★ 5.0 (1 rating) ·
  • 15 Want to read
  • 2 Currently reading
  • 3 Have read

New discoveries about the textile arts reveal women's unexpectedly influential role in ancient societies. Barber "weaves the strands of mythology and literature, archaeology, ethnology, and documented history into a rich tapestry" says John Noble Wilford, New York Times Book Review. Photos and drawings. Author lectures.

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W. W. Norton & Company
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English
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336

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Women, history, to 500, Prehistoric Textile fabrics, Ancient Textile fabrics, Prehistoric Women, Work, Women, History

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Cover of: Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years
Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years : Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times
September 1995, W. W. Norton & Company, Norton
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Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years : Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times
September 1995, W. W. Norton & Company
in English
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Cover of: Women's work, the first 20, 000 years
Women's work, the first 20, 000 years: women, cloth, and society in early times
1994, W.W. Norton
in English
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"For millennia women have sat together spinning, weaving, and sewing."

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OL7456757M
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0393313484
ISBN 13
9780393313482
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16565
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