Mennonite women in Canada : a history /

Mennonite women in Canada : a history /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Epp, Marlene, 1958-
Imprint:	Winnipeg : University of Manitoba Press, ©2008.
Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 378 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations.
Language:	English
Series:	Studies in immigration and culture, 1914-1459 ; 2 Studies in immigration and culture ; 2.
Subject:	Mennonite women -- Canada -- History. Mennonite women -- Canada -- Social conditions. Mennonite women. Mennonite women -- Social conditions. Canada. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11208948

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ISBN:	9780887553431 0887553435 9780887554100 0887554105 9780887551826 0887551823 9780887557064 0887557066
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-365) and index. Restrictions unspecified Access restricted to LAC onsite clients. Online access with authorization. Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
Summary:	"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.
Other form:	Print version: Epp, Marlene, 1958- Mennonite women in Canada. Winnipeg : University of Manitoba Press, ©2008