Women through anti-proverbs
Part I --1.Women in American Proverbs --2.Anti-Proverbs --Part II --3.A Woman's Nature as Represented in Anglo-American Anti-Proverbs --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 --5."Spinsters Live Longer Than Married Women Because Where There's Hope There's Life": Spinsters as Represented in Anglo-American Anti-Proverbs --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 --7."Many a Widow Finds It Easy to Marry Again Because Dead Men Tell No Tales": Widows as Revealed Through Anglo-American Anti-Proverbs --8."On the Matrimonial Sea, the Hand That Rocks the Cradle Very Seldom Rocks the Boat": Mothers as Revealed Through Anglo-American Anti-Proverbs --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 --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 --Part III --11."The Breasts on the Other Side of the Fence Look Greener": Women's Sexuality as Revealed Through Anglo-American Anti-Proverbs --12."Never Send a Boy to Do a Man's Job-Send a Woman": Female Professions and Occupations.