Titlebook: Women Through Anti-Proverbs; Anna T. Litovkina Book 2019 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019 female stereotypes.proverbs.

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“You Know a Bad Beginning Makes a Good Endin’,” as the Old Woman Said: Generic Old Women as Represenms. At first it addresses stereotypical traits of old women most frequently explored in humorous proverb transformations and Wellerisms, such as their sex appeal and their looks, their worries concerning losing their beauty and aging, and their poor intellectual abilities. Finally, it examines the r

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“Never Send a Boy to Do a Man’s Job–Send a Woman”: Female Professions and Occupationsir variations stress the idea that it is women who possess authority in the domestic sphere This chapter begins with the most traditional female occupation, that of the housewife. It also discusses a number of other typically female professions and occupations most frequently represented in the corp

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Book 2019ate 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

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“Never Send a Boy to Do a Man’s Job–Send a Woman”: Female Professions and Occupationsus of anti-proverbs, such as actress and whore. The chapter also addresses the representation of other female professions and occupations, including maids, babysitters, teachers, secretaries, hairdressers, beauticians, landladies, waitresses, and publicity agents.

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“Give a Girl Enough Rope and She’ll Ring the Wedding Bell”: The Nature of Young Women, Girls, Daughtimited intellectual abilities, and their lack of wisdom). The chapter also addresses the important issue of female sexuality, by looking at portrayals of young girls’ promiscuousness, lustfulness, and seductiveness. Finally, it explains how anti-proverbs say girls try to find the man of their choice and how they manage to “make a marriage knot.”