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"The Amish and Ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities have typically been associated with strict religious observance, a renunciation of worldly things, and an obedience of women to men. Women's relationship to media in these communities, however, betrays a more nuanced picture of the boundaries at play and women's roles in negotiating them. Strictly Observant presents a compelling ethnographic study of the complex dynamic between women in both the Pennsylvanian Old Order Amish and Israeli Ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities and contemporary media technologies. These women regularly establish valuable social, cultural, and religious capital through the countless decisions for use and non-use of media that they make in their daily lives, and in ways that challenge the gender hierarchies of each community. By exhibiting a deep awareness of how media can be managed to increase their social and religious reputations, these women prompt us to reconsider out outmoded understanding of the Amish and Ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities, the role that women play in these communities as agents of change, and our own relationship to media today"--

Anabaptist women --- Mass media --- Media literacy --- Ultra-Orthodox Jewish women --- Conduct of life. --- Religious aspects. --- Social aspects.

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Harlot, pious martyr, marriage breaker, obedient sister, prophetess, literate woman, agent of the devil, hypocrite. These are some qualifications of the image of Anabaptist/Mennonite women, from a wide array of perspectives. Over the ages they became both negative and positive stereotypes, created by either opponents or sympathizers, as a means of demonizing or promoting the dissident, radical free church movement. This volume explores the characteristics, backgrounds and effects of the collective perceptions of Anabaptist/Mennonite women, as well as their self-understanding, from the sixteenth into the nineteenth centuries, in a variety of case studies. This is not a gender study in the traditional sense. The theory of imagology sets the stage for the interpretation of the image of the European Mennonite sisters, acting within their religious, moral, cultural and social landscapes of Austria, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland, and the Ukraine (tsarist Russia).

Mennonite women --- Anabaptist women --- Women in Christianity --- 286 <09> --- 289.7 <03> --- 289.7 <03> Mennonieten--Naslagwerken. Referentiewerken --- Mennonieten--Naslagwerken. Referentiewerken --- 286 <09> Anabaptisten. Wederdopers--Geschiedenis van ... --- 286 <09> Anabaptistes. Baptistes--Geschiedenis van ... --- Anabaptisten. Wederdopers--Geschiedenis van ... --- Anabaptistes. Baptistes--Geschiedenis van ... --- Christianity --- Christian women --- Women, Mennonite --- History --- Anabaptisten. Wederdopers--Geschiedenis van . --- Anabaptisten. Wederdopers--Geschiedenis van