Lives of Amish Women Redware Real goatskin tambourine with wooden

Real goatskin tambourine with wooden base

Myrrh and Rose of Sharon

may have faced

villages/houses

By Christian Alsdoff

Lives of Amish Women Redware Real goatskin tambourine with woodenContinuity 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,