Women of Two Countries: German-American Women, Women's Rights and Nativism, 1848-1890 (Transatlantic Perspectives)
Michaela Bank
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 ... Read more
Show LessProduct Details
About Michaela Bank
Reviews for Women of Two Countries: German-American Women, Women's Rights and Nativism, 1848-1890 (Transatlantic Perspectives)