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Womens Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times Audiobook, by Elizabeth Wayland Barber Play Audiobook Sample

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

Womens Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times Audiobook, by Elizabeth Wayland Barber Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Donna Postel Publisher: Tantor Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 6.00 hours at 1.5x Speed 4.50 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: June 2019 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781400171323

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

14

Longest Chapter Length:

57:45 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

06:30 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

38:25 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

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 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.

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, Washington Post Book World), she argues that women were a powerful economic force in the ancient world, with their own industry: fabric.

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About Donna Postel

Donna Postel, an Earphones Award–winning narrator, is absolutely passionate about audiobooks and has narrated close to fifty titles across multiple genres, from memoir and biography to literary fiction, romance, mystery, and suspense. She uses her innate curiosity, talent, and decades of experience on stage and in the recording studio to bring books to life. When she’s not in the studio, she can be found down at the barn cleaning up after and occasionally riding horses.