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Miriam Toews and #Mennotoo (1)

September 30, 2018

In a note before the main text of Miriam Toews’ new novel,Women Talking, the author writes that the book is “a reaction through fiction of these true-life events, and an act of female imagination.” The events in question were a series of horrific rapes that occurred in a Bolivian Mennonite colony in the first decade … More Miriam Toews and #Mennotoo (1)

Courage, Faith and Selective Memory

September 2, 2016

This post was first published in April, 2015. I have made some minor edits, but otherwise kept it the same. For years – centuries, really – Mennonite women have been doubly silenced. Once by a broad patriarchal society that shut down all women’s voices and then additionally by a religious culture that reinforced that message. … More Courage, Faith and Selective Memory

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Miriam Toews and #Mennotoo (1)

Courage, Faith and Selective Memory