Never marry a woman with big feet : women in proverbs from around the world / Mineke Schipper
- Bib ID:
- 3093576
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Schipper, Mineke
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- New Haven : Yale University Press, 2003
- viii, 422 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0300102496
- Summary:
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"Mineke Schipper analyzes 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."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- The Mother of All Sciences
- Proverbs and Their Impact
- 1. The Female Body
- From Head to Foot
- Beauty and Beautifying
- The Female Body Anthology
- 2. Phases of Life
- Girls, Daughters, Brides
- Wives, Co-Wives, Widows
- Mothers and Mothers-in-Law
- Phases of Life Anthology
- 3. Basics of Life
- Love
- Sex
- Fertility, Pregnancy, Childbirth
- Basics of Life Anthology
- 4. Female Power
- Verbal Talent
- Work
- Knowledge
- Witchcraft and Other Occult Forces
- Countermeasures
- Violence
- Female Power Anthology
- 5. Messages of Images
- Women as Objects
- Gendered Places and Spaces
- Messages of Images Anthology
- Epilogue: Proverbial Imaginations in an Age of Globalization.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [406]-414) and index.
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