Epp, Marlene Gay
자료유형 | 학위논문 |
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개인저자 | Epp, Marlene Gay. |
단체저자명 | University of Toronto (Canada). |
서명/저자사항 | Women without men: :Mennonite immigration to Canada and Paraguay after the Second World War. |
형태사항 | vi, 498 p ;29 cm. |
기본자료 저록 | Dissertation Abstracts International,58-06A. |
ISBN | 061219003X |
학위논문주기 | Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto (Canada), 1996. |
일반주기 | Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 58-06, Section: A, page: 2345. Adviser: Ian Radforth. |
요약 | In the decade following the end of the Second World War, approximately 12,000 Mennonites immigrated to Canada and Paraguay from the Soviet Union and eastern Europe. A distinguishing characteristic of this migrant group was a high proportion of female-headed families as well as a general sex imbalance of women over men due to male losses under the Stalin regime and during the war itself. |
요약 | This thesis examines the pre-war, wartime, and post-immigration experiences of Mennonite refugee families, generally characterized as 'women without men.' The study follows Soviet Mennonite families through the Stalin purges of the 1930s, the German occupation of Ukraine at the outset of the war, and their subsequent westward trek to Germany during the war. Along with thousands of other displaced persons seeking new homes after the war, Mennonites from Ukraine and eastern Europe immigrated to North and South America, mainly to Canada and Paraguay. As newcomers, the immigrants worked to achieve economic and psychological security and attempted to recreate family life according to the ideals of the host society. As members of a small ethno-religious group, the immigrants also faced the challenge of learning to be Mennonite in ways foreign to them. |
요약 | By focusing on gender and family history, this study contributes to, and challenges the hitherto dominant modes of historical writing on immigrants in which single males, or indeed single females, or father-headed family groups, have characterized the flow of migrants to Canada. Because of the loss of large numbers of men from their families and community, and their subsequent re-integration into patriarchal communities, the roles of Mennonite women immigrants were deconstructed prior to and during the war, and then reconstructed after migration. Widows in particular had to negotiate through a community terrain in which certain social stigmas were attached to both their sex and marital status, and a personal terrain of independence and self-sufficiency that derived from their experience of being the family head. |
일반주제명 | History, Modern History, Latin American History, Canadian Sociology, Individual and Family Studies Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies |
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