Women Through Anti-Proverbs

Chapter 1 Women in American Proverbs

Chapter 2 Anti-Proverbs

Chapter 3 A Woman’s Nature as Represented in Anglo-American Anti-Proverbs

Chapter 4 “Give a Girl Enough Rope and She’ll Ring the Wedding Bell”: The Nature of Young Women, Girls, Daughters and Brides as Represented in Anglo-American Anti-Proverbs

Chapter 5 “Spinsters Live Longer Than Married Women Because Where There’s Hope There’s Life”: Spinsters as Represented in Anglo-American Anti-Proverbs

Chapter 6 “Behind Every Man Who Lives Within His Income Is a Wife Who Doesn’t”: The Figure of Wife as Portrayed in Anglo-American Anti-Proverbs

Chapter 7 “Many a Widow Finds It Easy to Marry Again Because Dead Men Tell No Tales”: Widows as Revealed Through Anglo-American Anti-Proverbs

Chapter 8 “On the Matrimonial Sea, the Hand That Rocks the Cradle Very Seldom Rocks the Boat”: Mothers as Revealed Through Anglo-American Anti-Proverbs

Chapter 9 “When the Mother-In-Law Comes in at the Door, Love Flies Out of the Window”: The Mother-in-Law as Reflected in Anglo-American Anti-Proverbs

Chapter 10 “You Know a Bad Beginning Makes a Good Endin’,” as the Old Woman Said: Generic Old Women as Represented in Anglo-American Anti-Proverbs

Chapter 11 “The Breasts on the Other Side of the Fence Look Greener”: Women’s Sexuality as Revealed Through Anglo-American Anti-Proverbs

Chapter 12 “Never Send a Boy to Do a Man’s Job–Send a Woman”: Female Professions and Occupations