Did you see the information I had posted after I read "Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years" by Elizabeth Barber? I pulled out dozens of really good quotes, basically everything I highlighted as "nifty" or "important" that I might want to reference later. It's a shorthand way of reading a book without reading the book, though in this case I did a whole lot of highlighting since that was a great book.
Barber's theory as to why women tended to work with the textiles is that it's one of the few things which can be interupted frequently and doesn't require heavy labor, so you can watch the kids while doing it. Can't take the toddlers hunting with you, and that sort of thing. She even goes into her theories about why innovations take off or what motivates men to take over traditionally 'women's work'. An awesome book!!!!
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Barber's theory as to why women tended to work with the textiles is that it's one of the few things which can be interupted frequently and doesn't require heavy labor, so you can watch the kids while doing it. Can't take the toddlers hunting with you, and that sort of thing. She even goes into her theories about why innovations take off or what motivates men to take over traditionally 'women's work'. An awesome book!!!!