Recognition
For her internationally acclaimed book Never Marry a Woman with Big Feet - Women in Proverbs from Around the World (hardback Yale University Press 2004; paperback Amsterdam UP and Chicago UP 2006) she received the Eureka Award 2005 (academic book best accessible to a large audience). The book has been published in a number of languages, among which Chinese,Turkish, Spanish, and Arabic. (Korean and Brazilian translations are being prepared).
She has published collections of proverbs about women, books that have drawn significant attention. See her interactive website www.womeninproverbsworldwide.com
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