Women of Two Countries (eBook)

Michaela Bank received her doctoral degree in American Studies from Goethe-University in Frankfurt/Main, Germany in 2009. She was a fellow in the graduate research training group “Public Spheres and Gender Relations” funded by the German Research Foundation from 2005 to 2008. From 2008 to 2010 she was a lecturer of American history and gender studies at Goethe-University in Frankfurt/Main.

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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