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Never Marry a Woman with Big Feet

Women in Proverbs from Around the World

By: Mineke Schipper,Wilhelmina Janneke Josepha Schipper

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Never Marry a Woman with Big Feet

Women in Proverbs from Around the World

By: Mineke Schipper,Wilhelmina Janneke Josepha Schipper

In this study the author analyses similarities, differences and contradictions in the cultural norms about gender expressed in proverbs she has found in oral and written sources from over 150 countries. Grouping the proverbs into categories as the female body, love, sex, childbirth and the female power, the author examines shared patterns in ideas about women and how men see them.

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444

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Yale University Press

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ISBN 10

0300102496

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9780300102499

Imagining Insiders

By: Mineke Schipper

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Imagining Insiders

By: Mineke Schipper

This study surveys a wide range of writings and ideas out of Africa by people of African descent on the various ways in which "insiders" and "outsiders", "self" and "otherness" have been imagined and defined from African perspectives. Attention is focused on identity issues regarding Africa, Panafricanism, American Black culture, Negritude and Black Consciousness, as well as on whiteness and otherness, black versus white cultures and gender matters in a racialized context. Some theoretical issues in the academic debate on insiders and intercultural dialogue are also discussed, with examples from various disciplines. Five interviews with leading writers conclude the book.

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240

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A&C Black

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1847141986

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9781847141989

Never Marry a Woman with Big Feet

Women in Proverbs from Around the World

By: Mineke Schipper

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Never Marry a Woman with Big Feet

Women in Proverbs from Around the World

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 irresistible book provides revealing insights into the female condition across centuries and continents. Mineke Schipper discovered surprisingly more similarities than differences in thousands of proverbs about women, originating from hundreds of languages and more than 150 countries. Those vivid and earthy proverbs reflect women's phases of life: from girl to bride, to wife or cowife; from mother to mother-in-law, widow and randmother; the joys and sorrows of love, sex, and childbearing; women's work, their talents, and their power. This is an intriguing cross-cultural history of humanity, a history that has to do with all of us, in its bewildering views of men and women. Never Marry a Woman with Big Feet is a stunning and entertaining rough guide showing us how far both sexes have progressed on the road towards world citizenship where, in the words of a Tibetan proverb, 'A hundred male and a hundred female qualities make a perfect human being.

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350

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9087281005

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9789087281007

Imagining Insiders

By: Mineke Schipper

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By: Mineke Schipper

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