Mennonite women in Canada : a history / Marlene Epp.

By:

Epp, Marlene, 1958-

Series: Studies in immigration and culture ; 2.Publication details: Winnipeg : University of Manitoba Press, ©2008.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 378 pages, [14] pages of plates) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9780887553431
0887553435
9780887554100
0887554105

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Mennonite women in Canada.DDC classification:

305.48/689771 22

LOC classification:

BX8128.W64 E67 2008

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coll11
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Contents:

'The curious Mennonite': seeing Canadiand Mennonite women through low-lying fog -- Pioneers, refugees, and transnationals: women immigrate to Canada -- Wives, mothers, and 'others': women within families -- Preachers, prophets, and missionaries: women in the church -- Nonconformists, nonresistors, and citizens: women living in the world -- Quilters, canners, and writers: women in the material world.

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Review: "Marlene Epp explores women's roles, as prescribed and as lived, within the contexts of immigration and settlement, household and family, church and organizational life, work and education, and in response to social trends and events. She questions how Mennonites dictate women's "place" within the church, family, and community, and how women, collectively and individually, actually behave. Epp found that in virtually all aspects of women's lives, there exists a contradiction between behavioural ideals and practicalities. She also found that their responses to dictates about their proper place ranged from acceptance to rebellion, and almost always unsettled a clear delineation of their roles." "Using diaries, oral histories, church histories, genealogies, and memoirs, Epp has painstakingly pieced together a rich and fascinating story of Canadian Mennonite women that deserves to be read by women and men everywhere."--Jacket.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-365) and index.

"Marlene Epp explores women's roles, as prescribed and as lived, within the contexts of immigration and settlement, household and family, church and organizational life, work and education, and in response to social trends and events. She questions how Mennonites dictate women's "place" within the church, family, and community, and how women, collectively and individually, actually behave. Epp found that in virtually all aspects of women's lives, there exists a contradiction between behavioural ideals and practicalities. She also found that their responses to dictates about their proper place ranged from acceptance to rebellion, and almost always unsettled a clear delineation of their roles." "Using diaries, oral histories, church histories, genealogies, and memoirs, Epp has painstakingly pieced together a rich and fascinating story of Canadian Mennonite women that deserves to be read by women and men everywhere."--Jacket.

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