Women Without Men: Mennonite Refugees of the Second World War (Studies in Gender and History)

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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 in the end 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 ladies wove their memories into larger histories that helped them to maintain the horror of the past and contributed to a sense of normalcy of their new and strikingly different homes.

Epp examines the particular difficulties of the emigration experience for women without men. These women ceaselessly used ingenious strategies to give protection to 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 specializes in the intersection of gender, war, and immigration. In her analysis of the relationship of female-headed households with patriarchal, postwar society, she gains get right of entry to to the personal worlds of these women. In doing so, she offers a greater figuring out 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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