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Book SynopsisGerman-American women played many roles in the US women's rights movement from 1848 to 1890. This book focuses on three figuresMathilde Wendt, Mathilde Franziska Anneke, and Clara Neymannwho 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 ninete
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
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