Mineke Schipper's books continue to be published in more and more languages. Most translated: Never Marry a Woman with Big Feet. Women in Proverbs from Around the World
Naked or Covered Mineke Schipper provides a fascinating and wide-ranging compendium of fact and fiction about the covering of the body through the ages. - J.M. Coetzee
Overal in de wereld zijn denkbeelden over vrouwen uitgedrukt in spreekwoorden. Mineke Schipper verzamelde er duizenden. In Trouw nooit een vrouw met grote voeten beschrijft ze wat er zoal gezegd is over de vrouwelijke levensfasen van meisje tot bruid, echtgenote, moeder, schoonmoeder en grootmoeder.
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Proverbs are funny. And educational. And they can be a good starting point for discussions about tradition and modernity. Schipper collected over 15,000 proverbs about women and travels the world to give lectures and engage in discussions with the audience.
womeninproverbsworldwide.org
Women and wine confound men - Spanish, Puerto Rico
Mineke Schipper's books continue to be published in more and more languages. Most translated: her award-winning and internationally acclaimed Never Marry a Woman with Big Feet. Women in Proverbs from Around the World (Yale University Press).
