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Women of two countries : German-American women, women's rights and nativism, 1848-1890
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- Creator
- Michaela Bank
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : Berghahn Books, 2012
- Physical Details
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- vii, 192 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0857455133, 1283655640, 9780857455123, 9781283655644, 0857455125, 9780857455130
- OCLC
- ocn815668488, ocn776031962
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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
Subjects
- Wendt, Mathilde.
- Anneke, Mathilde Franziska Giesler, 1817-1884.
- Neymann, Clara, 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.