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Women against the good war conscientious objection and gender on the American home front, 1941 - 1947
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No full text<i>Horse-and-Buggy Genius: Listening to Mennonites Contest the Modern World</i> by Royden Loewen
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Review: <i>Diaspora in the Countryside: Two Mennonite Communities and Mid-Twentieth Century Rural Disjuncture</i>, by Royden Loewen
No full text"Repent of the Sins of Homophobia" : The Rise of Queer Mennonite Leaders
No full textAcross North America, Mennonites are widely regarded to be among the most conservative of Christian groups. But in recent decades, Mennonite understandings of LGBTQ+ identity have transformed faith communities, as the engagement of social media-conscious activists such as Pink Menno have contributed to evolving practices regarding sexual minorities in Mennonite churches. Recent ordinations and the growing visibility of queer ministers, chaplains, and theologians have led to recent schism in Mennonite Church USA, with traditionalists departing the denomination in record numbers. The decentralized nature of Mennonitism has contributed to more inclusive policies in the past two decades, although decentralization also allows exclusionary practices to persist in some churches and institutions. This article draws from oral history interviews with thirty Mennonite theologically trained LGBTQ+ leaders from across the United States and Canada. These narratives demonstrate how—in some sectors of the Mennonite community—queer and non-queer people are accelerating changes in historically
homophobic spaces
Strangers at Home: Amish and Mennonite Women in History
No full textReview of: Strangers at Home: Amish and Mennonite Women in History. Umble, Diane Zimmerman; Schmidt, Kimberly D.; and Reschly, Steven D., ed
The Women's Interwar Peace Movement
No full text Rachel Waltner Goossen. Women Against the Good War: Conscientious Objection and. Gender on the American Home Front, 1941-1947. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. Pp. xiii + 180 and biblio- graphy and illustrations. Linda K. Schott. Reconstructing Women's Thoughts: The Womett's Inter- national League for Peace and Freedom Before World War II. Stanford: Stan- ford University Press, 1997. Pp. ix + 211 and illustrations. Linked together by similar subjects—women pacifists in the United States during or prior to World War II—both of these books are useful for an understanding of the interwar peace movement. Schott's study of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) should be read in conjunction with Carrie Foster's 1995 work on that group, The Women and the Warriors, and the 1993 biography of long-time WILPF leader Mildred Scott Olmsted by Margaret Bacon entitled One Woman's Passion for Peace and Freedom, both published by Syracuse University Press, as well as Harriet Hyman Alsono's two seminal works, The Women's Peace Union and the Outlawry of War, 1921-1942 (Knoxville, 1989) and Peace as a Women's Issue (Syracuse, 1993). Goossen's study of women in Civilian Public Service (CPS) nicely complements earlier works on conscientious objectors (CO's) like Cynthia Eller's conscientious Objectors and the Second World War (Praeger, 1991) with its religious and moral emphasis. </jats:p
