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Marlene Epp - Women Without Men: Mennonite Refugees of the Second World War - 9780802044914 - V9780802044914
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Women Without Men: Mennonite Refugees of the Second World War

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Description for Women Without Men: Mennonite Refugees of the Second World War hardcover. The story of thousands of Mennonite women who, having lost their husbands and fathers, assumed altered gender roles in their adopted homeland and created a culture of women refugees with its own distinctive historical narrative. Series: Studies in Gender and History. Num Pages: 296 pages, 12 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBC; HBJH; JFFN; JFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 158 x 26. Weight in Grams: 565.

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 ... Read more

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.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Gender and History
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9780802044914
SKU
V9780802044914
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About Marlene Epp
Marlene Epp is a professor in the Department of History at Conrad Grebel University College, University of Waterloo.

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