TY  - BOOK
AU  - Barber,E.J.W.
TI  - Women's work: the first 20,000 years : women, cloth, and society in early times 
SN  - 0393035069 :
AV  - GN799.T43 B37 1994
U1  - 305.4/3/09 20
PY  - 1994///
CY  - New York
PB  - Norton
KW  - Textile fabrics, Prehistoric
KW  - Women, Prehistoric
KW  - Textile fabrics, Ancient
KW  - Women
KW  - History
KW  - Vrouwen
KW  - gtt
KW  - Kleding
KW  - Maatschappij
KW  - Textiles et tissus préhistoriques
KW  - Femmes préhistoriques
KW  - Textiles et tissus antiques
KW  - Femmes
KW  - Histoire
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 306-322) and index; A tradition with a reason: why textiles were traditionally women's work -- The string revolution: life in the Palaeolithic -- Courtyard sisterhood: horticultural society in the Neolithic -- Island fever: Bronze Age horticultural survivals: Minoans and others -- More than hearts on our sleeves: the functions of cloth and clothing in society -- Elements of the code: symbolism in cloth and clothing -- Cloth for the caravans: early urban manufacture in the Bronze Age Near East -- Land of linen: Middle Kingdom Egypt -- The golden spindle: outworker industries for the elite: the Mycenaeans -- Behind the myths: women's work as reflected in textile myths -- Plain or fancy, new or tried and true: Late Bronze and Iron Age urban industries -- Postscript: Finding the invisible: methods of research
N2  - The author presents the previously untold human side of the story of prehistoric textiles, the relations of women and their textile work to society and economics over the huge span of prehistoric and early historic times
UR  - http://www.archive.org/details/womensworkfirst200barb
UR  - http://www.openlibrary.org/books/OL1435742M
ER  -