Women of two countries : German-American women, women's rights, and nativism, 1848-1890
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Women of two countries : German-American women, women's rights, and nativism, 1848-1890
(Transatlantic perspectives, v. 2)
Berghahn Books, 2012
- : hbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. [174]-187
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
German-American women played many roles in the US women's rights movement from 1848 to 1890. This book focuses on three figures-Mathilde Wendt, Mathilde Franziska Anneke, and Clara Neymann-who were simultaneously included and excluded from the nativist women's rights movement. Accordingly, their roles and arguments differed from those of their American colleagues, such as Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, or Lucy Stone. Moreover, German-American feminists were confronted with the opposition to the women's rights movement in their ethnic community of German-Americans. As outsiders in the women's rights movement they became critics; as "women of two countries" they became translators of feminist and ethnic concerns between German- Americans and the US women's rights movement; and as messengers they could bridge the gap between American and German women in a transatlantic space. This book explores the relationship between ethnicity and gender and deepens our understanding of nineteenth-century transatlantic relationships.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Content and Effect of 19th-century Gendered Nativism
"Women of Two Countries" as Critics, Translators and Messengers
The Complex Place of Women of Two Countries
Chapter Notes
Chapter 1. A German-American Movement: Critical Opponents
Imagining Opposition to Nativism
Mathilde Wendt's Powerful Words: Die Neue Zeit
Mathilde Wendt's Activism: Deutscher Frauenstimmrechtsverein
Opposition as a Dual Strategy
Chapter Notes
Chapter 2. Mathilde Franziska Anneke: Powerful Translator
Anneke's Identification with the Women's Rights Movement
Translating Nativism
Anneke's Efforts on Behalf of the Germans
Ethnicity as Anneke's Source of Power
Chapter Notes
Chapter 3. Clara Neymann: Transatlantic Messenger
Neymann's German-American political apprenticeship
Women Suffrage and Temperance in Nebraska 1882
Neymann's Ethnicization at NWSA Washington Conventions
Neymann as Messenger in Germany
Chapter Notes
Chapter 4. The Transatlantic Space of "Women of Two Countries"
The Ascendance of the US-American Avant-Garde
The Paradox of Nativism
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
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