Never Marry a Woman with Big Feet: Women in Proverbs from Around the World
by Schipper, Mineke
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0300102496
- ISBN 13
- 9780300102499
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About This Item
Yale University Press. Very Good/Very Good. 2004. Hard Cover. 8vo 0300102496 Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. 422 pages clean and tight. 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. .
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- Bookseller
- CHARLES BOSSOM (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 141937
- Title
- Never Marry a Woman with Big Feet: Women in Proverbs from Around the World
- Author
- Schipper, Mineke
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good/Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0300102496
- ISBN 13
- 9780300102499
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Place of Publication
- New Haven, Ct
- Date Published
- 2004
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