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"Uniformly sophisticated, interesting, and worthwhile" essays focusing on the often misunderstood experiences of Anabaptist women across 400 years (Agricultural History). Equal parts sociology, religious history, and gender studies, this book explores the changing roles and issues surrounding Anabaptist women in communities ranging from sixteenth-century Europe to contemporary North America. Gathered under the overarching theme of the insider/outsider distinction, the essays discuss, among other topics: \* How womanhood was defined in early Anabaptist societies of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and how women served as central figures by convening meetings across class boundaries or becoming religious leaders \* How nineteenth-century Amish tightened the connections among the individual, the family, the household, and the community by linking them into a shared framework with the father figure at the helm \* The changing work world and domestic life of Mennonite women in the three decades following World War II \* The recent ascendency of antimodernism and plain dress among the Amish \* The special difficulties faced by scholars who try to apply a historical or sociologica

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Author

Kimberly D. Schmidt, Diane Zimmerman Umble, Steven D. Reschly

Publisher

Johns Hopkins University Press ; NetLibrary, Incorporated Distributor

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780801876851

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Christian, Science, Philosophy