Contents: Acknowledgments Introduction: Insiders and Outsiders - Kimberly D. Schmidt, Diane Zimmerman Umble, and Steven D. Reschly Part I: Practice Makes Gender 1 Insights and Blindspots: Writing History from Inside and Outside - Hasia R. Diner 2 Who Are You? The Identity of the Outsider Within - Diane Zimmerman Umble 3 "To Remind Us of Who We Are": Multiple Meanings of Conservative Women's Dress - Beth E. Graybill 4 River Brethren Breadmaking Ritual - Margaret C. Reynolds 5 The Chosen Women: The Amish and the New Deal - Katherine Jellison Part 2: Creating Gendered Communities 6 Meeting around the Distaff : Anabaptist Women in Augsburg - Jeni Hiett Umble 7 "Weak Families" in the Green Hell of Paraguay - Marlene Epp 8 "The Parents Shall Not Go Unpunished": Preservationist Patriarchy and Community - Steven D. Reschly 9 Mennonite Missionary Martha Moser Voth in the Hopi Pueblos, 1893-1910 - Cathy Ann Trotta 10 Schism: Where Women's Outside Work and Insider Dress Collided - Kimberly D. Schmidt Part 3: (Re) creating Gendered Traditions 11 Speaking up and Taking Risks: Anabaptist Family and Household Roles in Sixteenth-Century Tirol - Linda Huebert Hecht 12 Household, Coffee Klatsch, and Office: The Evolving Worlds of Mid-Twentieth-Century Mennonite Women - Royden K. Loewen 13 Voices Within and Voices Without: Quaker Women's Autobiography - Barbara Bolz 14 "We Weren't Always Plain": Poetry by Women of Mennonite Backgrounds - Julia Kasdorf 15 "She May Be Amish Now, but She Won't Be Amish Long": Anabaptist Women and Antimodernism - Jane Marie Pederson Works Cited Contributors Index
These path-breaking essays make a stellar contribution to the scholarship of gender roles in contemporary Anabaptist communities. -- Donald B. Kraybill, Messiah College
Kimberly D. Schmidt is an assistant professor of history and director of the Washington Community Scholars Center of Eastern Mennonite University. Diane Zimmerman Umble is chair and an associate professor of communications at Millersville University. Steven D. Reschly is an associate professor of history at Truman State University.
Strangers at Home makes a major contribution to our understanding of Anabaptist history and the ongoing construction of Anabaptist identity. Moreover, in investigating the role of religion and ethnicity in framing the choices available to individuals and communities, the essays in Strangers at Home consider the historical construction of gender in Anabaptist cultures in the larger context of women's history and, in so doing, question assumptions about the field of women's history itself. -- Karen M. Johnson-Weiner Mennonite Quarterly Review Amish and Mennonite women occupy a unique niche in rural America, and the intricate, complex essays in Strangers at Home demonstrates a maturity in their study... The essays are uniformly sophisticated, interesting, and worthwhile. -- Rebecca Sharpless Agricultural History This work is significant both for its breadth... and for offering glimpses into the varieties of Mennonite and Amish life. -- Rachel Waltner Goosen Annals of Iowa A unique and significant contribution not only to the body of scholarship on Anabaptist women, but to the study of women's experiences in ethnoreligious groups in general. -- Erin Roth Der Reggeboge These essays add to the diversification of the historiography of women, raising in fresh ways questions of ethnicity, religion, and individual-community relationships. Their publication is a milestone in Anabaptist scholarship. -- Steven M. Nolt Journal of American History This collection of essays is an extraordinary contribution to the scholarly study of Anabaptist women. -- Laura H. Weaver Utopian Studies All who follow the invitation of the young woman features on the dust jacket to explore the experiences of the women who share the predicament finding themselves Strangers at Home, will be greatly enriched. -- Lucille Marr Journal of Mennonite Studies This collection represents a fresh and much needed approach to Anabaptist studies. -- Esther Epp-Tiessen Conrad Grebel Review
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