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Rolling Down Black Stockings
eBook
ISBN/EAN: 9781612774282
Umbreit-Nr.: 3594490
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 189 S.
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Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 17.02.2011
Auflage: 1/2011
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Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- This is a personal recollection of the author's youth spent in a highly restrictive and confined religious community. Her story is a search for identity, a longing for a mother's love, and a tale about the totalitarian culture that led to her departure from the Old Order Mennonite religion. A rare and moving memoir, it is also a valuable piece of social history.
- Kurztext
- A rare memoir of growing up Old Order MennoniteRolling Down Black Stockings is a personal recollection of Esther Royer Ayers's youth spent in a highly restrictive and confined religious community. Her story is as much a search for identity and a longing for a mother's love as it is a tale about a totalitarian culture that led to her departure from the Old Order Mennonite religion.This poignant story is told in three books: book 1 describes her youth in a farm community on the outskirts of Columbiana, Ohio; book 2 follows the struggles of Ayers as she tries to fit in with another culture after leaving the church when her family moves to Akron, Ohio; and book 3 discusses the history and cultural dynamics of the religion.Ayers recounts how the Old Order Mennonite Church came into existence. Her personal account begins when she was eight years old, watching as her mother took care of her sick father. With intelligence and insight, Ayers describes how her family coped with the burden of not having enough income, which meant that the children were expected to work instead of getting an education. When secular educational leaders closed the one-room schoolhouses that served her Mennonite community, Ayers relates her difficulties trying to fit in at the public school and how she and her siblings were required to fail classes so that they would be expelled. It concludes with reflections on what all this meant to her.A rare and moving memoir, Rolling Down Black Stockings is also a valuable piece of social history that will appeal to historians as well as those interested in separatist communities and women's studies.