Never marry a woman with big feet
Subtitle: women in proverbs from around the world
By: Mineke Schipper
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
ISBN-13: 9781423785309
Subjects: Proverbs; Women; Quotations; History and criticism
Description: The first book to bring together a fascinating compendium of witticisms on women-more than 15,000 sayings from around the globe and translated from more than 240 languages.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; Prologue; 1 The Female Body; 2 Phases of Life; 3 Basics of Life; 4 Female Power; 5 Messages of Metaphors; Epilogue: Proverbial Imagination in an Age of Globalization; Endnotes; Languages, Cultures and Countries; Bibliography; Index;