Lives of Amish Women Redware Elaine Reidel

Elaine Reidel

may have faced

Real goatskin tambourine with wooden base

a schoolmaster and fraktur artist known also as the Earl Township artist

By Christian Alsdoff

Lives of Amish Women Redware Elaine ReidelContinuity and change, tradition and dynamism shape the lives of Amish women and make their experiences both distinctive and diverse. On the one hand, a principled commitment to living Old Order lives, purposely out of step with the cultural mainstream, has provided Amish women with a good deal of constancy. Even in relatively more progressive Amish communities, women still engage in activities common to their counterparts in earlier times: gardening,