Review: Mineke Schipper. Never Marry a Woman with Big Feet: Women in the Proverbs around the World

Abstract

Mineke Schipper's Never Marry a Woman with Big Feet is a fascinating and
painstaking examination of proverbs about women from various cultures and periods of history. In the process of researching her book, Schipper compiled a list of approximately sixteen thousand proverbs in two hundred and fortyfive languages from over one hundred and fifty countries across the world. These statistics should indicate the ambitiousness of her research.

Current Writing Vol. 19 (1) 2007: pp. 169-170