Women of Two Countries

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.

• AcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroductionContent and Effect of 19th-century Gendered Nativism“Women of Two Countries” as Critics, Translators and MessengersThe Complex Place of Women of Two CountriesChapter NotesChapter 1. A German-American Movement: Critical OpponentsImagining Opposition to NativismMathilde Wendt’s Powerful Words: Die Neue ZeitMathilde Wendt’s Activism: Deutscher FrauenstimmrechtsvereinOpposition as a Dual StrategyChapter NotesChapter 2. Mathilde Franziska Anneke: Powerful TranslatorAnneke’s Identification with the Women’s Rights MovementTranslating NativismAnneke’s Efforts on Behalf of the GermansEthnicity as Anneke’s Source of PowerChapter NotesChapter 3. Clara Neymann: Transatlantic MessengerNeymann’s German-American political apprenticeshipWomen Suffrage and Temperance in Nebraska 1882Neymann’s Ethnicization at NWSA Washington ConventionsNeymann as Messenger in GermanyChapter NotesChapter 4. The Transatlantic Space of “Women of Two Countries”The Ascendance of the US-American Avant-GardeThe Paradox of NativismChapter NotesBibliography

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