Women of Two Countries (eBook)

German-American Women, Women's Rights and Nativism, 1848-1890

Michaela Bank (Autor)

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2012
216 Seiten
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-0-85745-513-0 (ISBN)

Infos

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 "e;women of two countries"e; 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.

Autor

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.

Inhalt

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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.9.2012
• Reihe/Serie: Transatlantic Perspectives
• Reihe/Serie: Transatlantic Perspectives
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Neuzeit bis 1918
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Gender Studies, 18th/19th Century History • Gender Studies and Sexuality, History: 18th/19th Century
• ISBN-10: 0-85745-513-3 / 0857455133
• ISBN-13: 978-0-85745-513-0 / 9780857455130