Mineke Schipper

Mineke Schipper is a cultural historian and writer. She is the author of many critically acclaimed works of non-fiction and fiction including Never Marry a Woman with Big Feet: Women in Proverbs from Around the World; Naked or Covered: A History of Dressing and Undressing Around the World; The Shrinking Goddess: Power Myth and the Female Body. 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, with visiting professorships in Nigeria, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Burkina Faso and China. She lives in the Netherlands.