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Women of two countries [electronic resource] : German-American women, women's rights, and nativism, 1848-1890 / Michaela Bank.
Material type:
TextSeries: Transatlantic perspectives ; 2.Publication details: New York : Berghahn Books, 2012.Description: vii, 192 pSubject(s): - Wendt, Mathilde
- Anneke, Mathilde Franziska Giesler, 1817-1884
- Neymann, Clara, b. 1840
- German American women -- Political activity -- History -- 19th century
- Women immigrants -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- German American women -- Biography
- Women immigrants -- United States -- Biography
- Women political activists -- United States -- Biography
- Women's rights -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Nativism -- History -- 19th century
- 973/.0431 23
- E184.G3 B27 2012
Contents:
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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Clara Neymann : Transatlantic Messenger -- Neymann's German-American political apprenticeship -- Women Suffrage and Temperance in Nebraska -- Neymann's Ethnicization at NWSA Washington Conventions -- Neymann as Messenger in Germany -- The Transatlantic Space of "Women of Two Countries" -- The Ascendance of the US-American Avant-Garde -- The Paradox of Nativism.
