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Never marry a woman with big feet [electronic resource] : women in proverbs from around the world / Mineke Schipper.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schipper, Mineke.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Proverbs.
- Proverbs--History and criticism.
- Women--Quotations.
- Women.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (351 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- [Leiden] : Leiden University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The 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.
- Contents:
- Contents; 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-63401-1
- 9786612634017
- 94-006-0019-4
- OCLC:
- 657329802
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