Women Through Anti Proverbs

Release on 2018-10-01 | by Anna T. Litovkina

Behind every successful man is a woman who is trying to keep up with the Joneses. (Esar 1968: 163) Behind every successful man is a woman who keeps reminding him that she knows men who would have done even better.

Women Through Anti Proverbs
  • Author: Anna T. Litovkina
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 9783319911984
  • Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Page: 211
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Women Through Anti Proverbs

This book examines stereotypical traits of women as they are reflected in Anglo-American anti-proverbs, also known as proverb transformations, deliberate proverb innovations, alterations, parodies, variations, wisecracks, fractured proverbs, and proverb mutations. Through these sayings and witticisms the author delineates the image of women that these anti-proverbs reflect, her qualities, attributes and behavior. The book begins with an analysis of how women’s role in the family, their sexuality and traditional occupations are presented in proverbs, and presents an overview of the genre of the anti-proverb. The author then analyses how this image of women is transformed in anti-proverbs, sometimes subverting, but often reinforcing the sexist bias of the original. This engaging work will appeal to students and scholars of humour studies, paremiology, gender studies, cultural studies, folklore and sociolinguistics alike.

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