This article is a feminist analysis of the oral life stories of the author’s Mennonite grandmother, Maria Buhler. By using gender as a category of analysis, the author demonstrates that the stories tend to simultaneously subvert and reinforce traditional Mennonite women’s gender roles. The author discusses implicit and explicit references to the dynamics of gender in the stories, and thereby uncovers subtexts and meanings valuable for a feminist understanding of Mennonite women’s lives and history. Various performance tactics used by Maria Buhler in the telling of her stories are also considered. A feminist reading of the stories sheds light on the traditional gender role and identity embraced by Maria Buhler, as well as upon Maria Buhler’s...
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This paper examines Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) women in the context created by the challenges of colon...
Charismatic heroine. Passive beast of burden. Mythical earth mother. These stereotypes have characte...
The article explores the problem of gender representation in the novel Tracks by Louise Erdrich. The...
Combining ethnographic methodology and feminist theory, this interdisciplinary study explores women...
In this paper, I document conversations I engaged in with my Métis grandmother (Grambear) and the pr...
During the early 1920s, Old Colony Mennonites emigrated from Canada to Chihuahua, Mexico in order to...
Thesis (M.A.)--Wichita State University, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the Elliott School of...
Sherpa Romeo green journal. Permission to archive accepted author manuscriptUnderstanding the belie...
A literary critique is presented wherein the author examines the novel “A Complicated Kindness,” by ...
The stories of women\u27s religious lives are essential to understanding religion. This thesis recor...
The dominant representation of domestic work in the literature is quite negative, with uncaring empl...
Appalachian women are subject to female gender roles within the region, which shape and constrain th...
How have conceptions of Amish womanhood changed over time? In this article, I show that while early ...
There has been an increasing tendency in recent decades to characterize North American Indigenous pe...
Human history is older than written words. Knowledge has passed from generation to generation and “t...
This paper examines Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) women in the context created by the challenges of colon...
Charismatic heroine. Passive beast of burden. Mythical earth mother. These stereotypes have characte...
The article explores the problem of gender representation in the novel Tracks by Louise Erdrich. The...