Textiles and Gender in Antiquity : Bloomsbury Academic : 9781350189737 : 1350189731 : 19 May 2022 : This volume looks at how the issues of textiles and gender intertwine across three millennia in antiquity and examines continuities and differences across time and space ? with surprising resonances for the modern world. The interplay of gender, identity, textile production and use is notable on many levels, from the question of who was involved in the transformation of raw materials into fabric at one end, to the wearing of garments and the construction of identity at the other. Textile production has often been considered to follow a linear trajectory from a domestic (female) activity to a more 'commercial' or 'industrial' (male-centred) mode of production. In reality, many modes of production co-existed and the making of textiles is not so easily grafted onto the labour of one sex or the other. Similarly, textiles once transformed into garments are often of 'unisex' shape but worn to