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

New discoveries about the textile arts reveal women's unexpectedly influential role in ancient societies.



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 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...