Strangers at home : Amish and Mennonite women in history /

Other Authors: Umble, Diane Zimmerman.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
Series:Center books in Anabaptist studies
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Online Access:http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=75757
Table of Contents:
  • Insights and blind spots: writing history from inside and outside / Hasia R. Diner
  • Who are you? The identity of the outsider within / Diane Zimmerman Umble
  • "To remind us of who we are": multiple meanings of conservative women's dress / Beth E. Graybill
  • River brethren breadmaking ritual / Margaret C. Reynolds
  • The chosen women: the Amish and the New Deal / Katherine Jellison
  • Meeting around the distaff: Anabaptist women in Augsburg / Jeni Hiett Umble
  • "Weak families" in the green hell of Paraguay / Marlene Epp
  • "The parents shall not go unpunished": preservationist patriarchy and community / Steven D. Reschly
  • Mennonite missionary Martha Moser Voth in the Hopi pueblos, 1893-1910 / Cathy Ann Trotta
  • Schism: where women's outside work and insider dress collided / Kimberly D. Schmidt
  • Speaking up and taking risks: Anabaptist family and household roles in sixteenth-century Tirol / Linda A. Huebert Hecht
  • Household, coffee klatsch, and office: the evolving worlds of mid-twentieth-century Mennonite women / Royden K. Loewen
  • Voices within and voices without: Quaker women's autobiography / Barbara Bolz
  • "We weren't always plain": poetry by women of Mennonite backgrounds / Julia Kasdorf
  • "She may be Amish now, but she won't be Amish long": Anabaptist women and antimodernism / Jane Marie Pederson.