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Mary Lefkowitz is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Wellesley College. Her books include Not Out of Africa and Black Athena Revisited, which she edited with Guy Rogers. (June 1997)
Fruits of the Loom
Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times
by Elizabeth Wayland Barber
June 26, 1997 issue
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