Never Marry a Woman with Big Feet by Mineke Schipper

Never Marry a Woman with Big Feet by Mineke Schipper

In cultures all over the globe, sex and gender issues have been expressed in proverbs, the world's smallest literary genre. This fascinating book provides revealing insights into the female condition across centuries and continents, as recorded in thousands of vivid and earthy proverbs about women. Mineke Schipper analyses similarities, differences, and contradictions in the cultural norms about gender expressed in thousands of proverbs she has found from over 150 countries. Grouping the sayings into such categories as the female body, love, sex, childbirth, and female power, she finds shared patterns in ideas about women (and how men see them). Part cross-cultural study, part literary criticism, and part anthology, her book is a unique and intriguing resource to dip into again and again.

"A fine contribution to the cosmopolitan conversation that ought to come with globalization" K. Anthony Appiah, Princeton University"

Mineke Schipper is Professor of Intercultural Comparative Literature at the Amsterdam Free University and Leiden State University. She is the author of several books on African and comparative literature and has lived and taught in Africa.

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ISBN 13	9780300102499
ISBN 10	0300102496
Title	Never Marry a Woman with Big Feet
Author	Mineke Schipper
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Yale University Press
Year published	2004-04-10
Number of pages	422
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