Autor/-in: Schipper Mineke

Mineke Schipper is a cultural historian and. writer. She is the author of seven critically. acclaimed works including Never Marry a. Woman with Big Feet: Women in Proverbs. from Around the World. and Naked or Covered:. A History of Dressing and Undressing Around. the World. Her writing has been published. in The Times, El Mundo and the Los Angeles. Times, among others. Schipper was foreign. secretary of Dutch PEN, chair of Index. on Censorship Nederland and currently. serves as Emeritus Professor of Intercultural. Literary Studies at the University of Leiden, Netherlands,. with visiting professorships in Nigeria,. Kenya, Zimbabwe, Burkina Faso and China. She received a Royal Order of Knighthood. for her contribution to social and cultural. studies.