Working Together: Women and Men on the Amish Family Farm in 1930s Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

Old Order Amish men did not own gasoline tractors or other large power farm implements to amplify their manhood, and Amish women did not own mechanical household appliances to symbolize their feminine role as housekeepers. Rejecting the notion of mechanized, capital-intensive agriculture in favor of...

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Main Authors: Katherine Jellison, Steven Reschly
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: University of Akron 2020-12-01
Series:The Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies
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Online Access:https://ideaexchange.uakron.edu/amishstudies/vol8/iss2/4