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One evening, eight Mennonite women climb into a hay loft to conduct a secret meeting. For the past two years, each of these women, and more than a hundred other girls in their colony, has been repeatedly violated in the night by demons coming to punish them for their sins. Now that the women have learned they were in fact drugged and attacked by a group of men from their own community, they are determined to protect themselves and their daughters from future harm. While the men of the colony are off in the city, attempting to raise enough money to bail out the rapists and bring them home, these women-all illiterate, without any knowledge of the world outside their community and unable even to speak the language of the country they live in-have very little time to make a choice: Should they stay in the only world they've ever known or should they dare to escape? Based on real events and told through the "minutes" of the women's all-female symposium, Toews's masterful novel uses wry, politically engaged humor to relate this tale of women claiming their own power to decide.-- For the past two years women and girls in a Mennonite colony has been repeatedly violated in the night by "demons" coming to punish them for their sins. Now the women have learned they were in fact drugged and attacked by a group of men from their own community. Determined to protect themselves and their daughters from future harm, the women meet while the men of the colony are off in the city, attempting to raise enough money to bail out the rapists and bring them home. These women-- all illiterate, unable even to speak the language of the country they live in-- must choose: Stay in the only world they've ever known, or dare to escape? -- adapted from publisher info.

Rape --- Misogyny --- Conspiracies --- Mennonite women

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Mennonites --- Anabaptists --- Baptists --- Christian sects --- General Conference Mennonite Church --- Mennonite Church --- General Conference of the Mennonite Church of North America --- Mennonite Church USA --- Iglesia Menonita --- Eglise mennonite

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Anabaptists --- Christian ethics --- Social ethics --- Mennonite authors

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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 --- Christianity --- Christian women --- Women, Mennonite --- History

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In Sons and Mothers, Mennonite men reflect on the women who raised them, showing their mothers' hopes, dreams, and fears, and who they are today. Speaking to the Mennonite community, but drawing on universal themes, this book is a must-read for anyone wishing to delve deeper into this fundamental relationship.

Mennonite women --- Motherhood --- Mennonites --- Mothers and sons --- Religious aspects --- Mennonites. --- Family relationships --- moms, stories, Mennonite.