Women's Work The First 20,000 Years

What a great book: "Women's Work The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times" by Elizabeth Wayland Barber. And she means early -- starting in 800 B.C.E. in what is now Hallstatt Austria. An amazing story of why and how women became the custodians of clothing and cloth production in early societies. I recommend it. I read it in preparation for some kind of thesis I'm going to write on domestic imagery and poetry and women and working and mothers -- still thinking about it.