Strangers at home : Amish and Mennonite women in history / edited by Kimberly D. Schmidt, Diane Zimmerman Umble, Steven D. Reschly.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schmidt, Kimberly D., 1961-

Umble, Diane Zimmerman.

Reschly, Steven D.

Series:

Center books in Anabaptist studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anabaptist women--History.

Anabaptist women.

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 398 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.

Summary:

"A major contribution to our understanding of Anabaptist history and the ongoing construction of Anabaptist identity." -- Mennonite Quarterly Review

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [365]-385) and index.

ISBN:

080186786X

OCLC:

45861696