String Revolution

I am trying to condense the whirling cloud of thoughts, ideas and emotions inspired by Elizabeth Wayland Barber’s Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Yearsdown to something that can be conveyed through the medium of words on a screen.
Best I can come up with is as follows: Read this book. (You can picture a bit of [...]

I want to give credit for this blog’s title to Elizabeth Wayland Barber, who wrote the utterly brilliant Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Years – Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times.I’m not finished reading the book yet, but it continues to set off fireworks in my mind at the rate of about one every [...]