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Berghahn Books Women of Two Countries German-American Women Womens Rights and Nativism 1848-1890 2012 Edition by Michaela Bank
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 :- AcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroductionContent and Effect of 19th-century Gendered Nativism"Women of Two Countries" as Critics, Translators and MessengersThe Complex Place of Women of Two CountriesChapter NotesChapter 1. A German-American Movement: Critical OpponentsImagining Opposition to NativismMathilde Wendt's Powerful Words: Die Neue ZeitMathilde Wendt's Activism: Deutscher FrauenstimmrechtsvereinOpposition as a Dual StrategyChapter NotesChapter 2. Mathilde Franziska Anneke: Powerful TranslatorAnneke's Identification with the Women's Rights MovementTranslating NativismAnneke's Efforts on Behalf of the GermansEthnicity as Anneke's Source of PowerChapter NotesChapter 3. Clara Neymann: Transatlantic MessengerNeymann's German-American political apprenticeshipWomen Suffrage and Temperance in Nebraska 1882Neymann's Ethnicization at NWSA Washington ConventionsNeymann as Messenger in GermanyChapter NotesChapter 4. The Transatlantic Space of "Women of Two Countries"The Ascendance of the US-American Avant-GardeThe Paradox of NativismChapter NotesBibliography