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Women missionaries --- Mennonite women --- Missionaries --- Mennonites --- Women, Mennonite --- Christian women --- Mennonite Church. --- Lancaster Mennonite Conference

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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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Aging --- Older women --- Mennonite women --- Christian life --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- Christianity --- Women, Mennonite --- Christian women --- Aged women --- Older people --- Women --- Religious aspects --- Mennonites --- Religious life --- Mennonite authors

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Winnipeg writer Katherine Martens interviewed 26 women from the Mennonite community in southern Manitoba, ranging in age from 22 to 88 years old. They had many different backgrounds, but they all had one important characteristic: all were mothers.In the course of these interviews, Martens was searching for answers to questions that affected her both as a Mennonite and as a woman. How did they feel when they learned of the pregnancy? How did they choose home or hospital birth? How did the traditions of the Mennonite culture affect them as wives and mothers? As they talked, many spoke about the joys and trials of giving birth, and they also told Martens stories about other parts of their lives. Some had escaped the Russian Revolution to emigrate to Canada; others spent their entire lives in rural Manitoba, part of the close-knit Mennonite community, running farms and bearing as many as 15 children. Younger women who had formally left the Mennonite church were still conscious of the impact of the beliefs and customs on their lives.Many women were surprised to be approached for an interview, insisting that they had "no stories to tell." One was visited in a dream by her dead husband, who told her to "leave that alone." Yet, in the privacy of their kitchens and parlours, over sociable cups of tea, many did share with Martens their private fears and joys about what was often seen as a rite of passage into responsible adulthood, and they recalled that childbirth could be a difficult and, at times, traumatic event, but it could also be a radiant and spiritual experience.

Mennonite women --- Childbirth --- Birth customs --- Mothers --- Moms --- Parents --- Women --- Housewives --- Motherhood --- Pregnant women --- Birthing customs --- Manners and customs --- Rites and ceremonies --- Birth --- Birthing --- Child birth --- Live birth --- Obstetrics --- Parturition --- Labor (Obstetrics) --- Women, Mennonite --- Christian women --- Interviews.

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Marlene Epp, who has written extensively on Mennonite history, presents here the story of thousands of Soviet Mennonite women who, having lost their husbands and fathers to Stalinist work camps and the Second World War, made an arduous journey through war-torn Europe. Housed in displaced persons camps after the war, many eventually emigrated to Paraguay and Canada.More than a mere description of the events that led these women from their native homes, this work encompasses the culture of women refugees and, in particular, how they 'remembered' the events that marked their lives. The women wove their memories into larger histories that helped them to deal with the horror of the past and contributed to a sense of normalcy in their new and strikingly different homes. Epp examines the particular difficulties of the emigration experience for women without men. These women often used ingenious strategies to protect themselves and their families, yet they were consistently depicted as weak and helpless by Mennonite refugee boards eager to reimpose traditional gender roles disrupted by the Soviet and war environments.Epp's study focuses on the intersection of gender, war, and immigration. In her analysis of the relationship of female-headed households with patriarchal, postwar society, she gains access to the personal worlds of these women. In doing so, she offers a better understanding of the culture of postwar immigrants and postwar families, the workings of refugee settlement agencies, and the functioning of postwar ethnic communities in Canada, Germany, and Paraguay.

Mennonite women --- History --- Canada --- Paraguay --- Emigration and immigration --- Women, Mennonite --- Paraguai --- Paragvaĭ --- República del Paraguay --- Republic of Paraguay --- Paragoayi --- Tetã Paraguái --- Parawayi --- Parawayi Republika --- Paraqvay --- Парагвай --- Parahvaĭ --- Рэспубліка Парагвай --- Rėspublika Parahvaĭ --- Paragvaj --- Republika Paragvaj --- Република Парагвай --- Republika Paragvaĭ --- Paraguay Vabariik --- Παραγουάη --- Paragouaē --- Δημοκρατία της Παραγουάης --- Dēmokratia tēs Paragouaēs --- Paragvajo --- Paragvaja Respubliko --- Paraguei --- Lýðveldið Paraguei --- République du Paraguay --- Paragua --- Pharaguay --- Pobblaght ny Paraguay --- Paraguaidh --- Pâ-lâ-kûi --- Парагаймудин Орн --- Paragaĭmudin Orn --- 파라과이 --- Pʻaragwai --- Paragvæ --- Canada (Province) --- Province of Canada --- Dominion of Canada --- Ḳanadah --- Ḳanade --- Kanada (Dominion) --- Chanada --- كندا --- Канада --- Καναδάς --- Kanadas --- Republica de Canadá --- Dominio del Canadá --- Kanado --- کانادا --- Ceanada --- Yn Chanadey --- Chanadey --- 캐나다 --- Kʻaenada --- Kanakā --- קנדה --- カナダ --- Canadae --- Kanadaja --- 加拿大 --- קאנאדע --- パラグアイ --- Christian women --- Upper Canada --- Lower Canada --- Women refugees --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Mennonites --- History. --- Refugees. --- Anabaptists --- Baptists --- Christian sects --- Refugee women --- Refugees --- Displaced persons --- Civilian relief --- Forced repatriation --- Рэспубліка Парагвай --- Република Парагвай --- Парагаймудин Орн --- Парагвай --- Jianada --- Kaineḍā --- Singapore poetry (English) --- English poetry --- Singaporean literature (English) --- Paraguay. --- Canada. --- Émigration et immigration --- Histoire --- Kanada --- Paragoua --- Paragva --- Parahva --- Republika Paragva --- Rėspublika Parahva