Women of Two Countries - German-American Women, Women's Rights and Nativism, 1848-1890 (Electronic book text)

German-American women played many roles in the US womenOCOs rights movement from 1848 to 1890. This book focuses on three figuresOCoMathilde Wendt, Mathilde Franziska Anneke, and Clara NeymannOCowho were simultaneously included and excluded from the nativist womenOCOs 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 womenOCOs rights movement in their ethnic community of German-Americans. As outsiders in the womenOCOs rights movement they became critics; as OC women of two countriesOCO they became translators of feminist and ethnic concerns between German- Americans and the US womenOCOs 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."