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Women of Two Countries: German-American Women, Women's Rights and Nativism, 1848-1890

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Women of Two Countries

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

Michaela Bank

216 pages, bibliog., index

ISBN  978-0-85745-512-3 $135.00/£99.00 / Hb / Published (September 2012)

eISBN 978-0-85745-513-0 eBook

https://doi.org/10.3167/9780857455123


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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.

Subject: Gender Studies and SexualityHistory: 18th/19th Century
Area: GermanyNorth America


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