Women of two countries :

Bank, Michaela.

Women of two countries : German-American women, women's rights and nativism, 1848-1890 / Michaela Bank. - New York : Berghahn Books, 2012. - vii, 192 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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.

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Wendt, Mathilde.
Anneke, Mathilde Franziska Giesler, 1817-1884.
Neymann, Clara, 1840-


German American women
Women immigrants
German American women
Women immigrants
Women political activists
Women's rights
Nativism--Political activity--History--19th century.--Political activity--History--United States--19th century.--Biography.--United States--Biography.--United States--Biography.--History--United States--19th century.--History--19th century.

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