After reading throughout this website about Gender and Health specifically looking at Hutterites and their health notions. I would be remiss to not lead those of you tabbing through this website towards helpful websites and books to deeper your understanding on Hutterites and their notions of health.
First is a website curated by the Hutterites themselves that explains their lives, their beliefs, blog entries revealing the lives of the Hutterites and much more. Within my research I have only scratched the surface on who the Hutterites are. This website is updated readily and is contemporary, which does not include older documents or primary sources for historical research, however serves as a great starting point to understanding the Hutterites in Canada and the Untied States today.
For those of you that are movie fanatics, The National Film Board of Canada has a film called The Hutterites, directed by Colin Law, which depicts the lives of the Hutterites in the early 1960’s. This is a great primary source, that can visually help you understand the Hutterites and see their lifestyles firsthand. This 28 minute film that can deepen your understanding of Hutterites and see their lifestyles in the 1960’s, which is the time period that my research paper was focused on.
http://www.nfb.ca/film/the_hutterites/
The two previous links deal with the Hutterites, however neither tackle Health and Gender in Canada. In order to get a better picture of the health and gender of Hutterites, one will have to look to the library shelves. There are two books in particular that are great starting points to understanding this topic. I used both books extensively in my research paper, and would recommend them both. They are:
Peters, Victor. All Things Common. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota, 1965.
Janzen, Rod A., and Max Edward Stanton. The Hutterites in North America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.
These are just a few starting points if you are interested in the Hutterites and their notions of health.