![]() ![]() Mothers have toddlers underfoot, and need a workspace that is relatively safe for marauding children (keeping the children safe from the work and vice versa). She sees weaving and spinning as work that fit the lives of women as mothers. helps her have a clear sense of what the work was like to do and can correct misapprehensions.īut the reason the book feels particularly relevant to Other Feminisms is that Barber is interested in why thread and cloth were work that fell to women. Hanging her own looms, reproducing weaves, etc. One of my favorite details is that Barber complements her archeology with attempts to replicate the fragments she finds. I’m an ideal reader for this book (I had my own little inkle loom as a kid) and I love the way she puts together scraps of information to build up a tapestry of how women’s work changed. Barber is a professor of archeology and linguistics, and the book presents her research on prehistoric textiles for a lay audience. ![]() On a friend’s recommendation, I recently read and enjoyed Elizabeth Wayland Barber’s Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times. Greek women weave together on a vertical loom. ![]()
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