Never Marry a Woman with Big Feet: Women in Proverbs from Around the World by Mineke Schipper, Mineke Schipper

Never Marry a Woman with Big Feet: Women in Proverbs from Around the World

Mineke Schipper, Mineke Schipper

352 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction feminism challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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The Sena tribe in Malawi and Mozambique have a proverb: ‘Never marry a wife with bigger feet than your own.’ The Chinese have an astonishingly similar message. And in Telugu, too, prospective husbands are warned away from women with long feet.In c...

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