Amish Women Essay

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Kraybill (2014) note that one of the techniques the Amish use to preserve their cultural separation is that they steadfastly elude urban life and area, living only in rural settlements that provided seclusion and exclude them from any temptations. The distance created has empowered them to evade extreme obsession with buying material goods, household furnishings, vacation, clothing and the crazes of widely held values and beliefs. Moreover, they have successfully cloistered themselves from social movements, such as feminism, pluralism, and multiculturalism that would dramatically transform their lives in many ways (Kraybill 2014).
Wise (2002) asserts that Amish are not by any stretch of imagination dated in the use of technology. Although …show more content…

Gender inequality is promoted and cannot be challenged as an Amish woman cannot express her opinion in the public gathering but only to her husband and the household. In public an Amish woman will usually concede to her husband’s decisions because she accepted him as her head. “Wives submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the lord. For as husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and the savior of the body” (Ephesians 5:22-23). The best interest of an Amish woman is first of all toward her husband and children, supporting and negotiating for them before considering herself (Amanatullah and Morris …show more content…

Amish women are proud of their skill in the area of tending to nurseries, the comportment of their children, supplements on sustenance and home management (Hershberger 1989, Wise 2007). They take so much pleasure in the increased value of their handiwork by others. As of late, some Amish women have increased more trade and industry influence as they have gained minute businesses such as coverlet shops (quilt), nurseries, and fabric stores (Kraybill 2001, Wise 2002). Unmarried Amish females frequently work as waiters, teachers, or hired as help in a household while single while a few Amish women usually single, take up factory job (manufacturing work) tagged majorly for men (Amish America). The married Amish women stay at home to take care of their children and when they are grown up; they are allowed to work in distance places (Kraybill

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