Women of Two Countries
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-0-85745-512-3 (ISBN)
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.
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
Bibliography
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 18.10.2012 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Transatlantic Perspectives |
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 399 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-85745-512-5 / 0857455125 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-85745-512-3 / 9780857455123 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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