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1 online resource (200 pages) |
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Transatlantic Perspectives |
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Transatlantic perspectives.
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| Contents |
Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1-A German-American Movement: Critical Opponents; Chapter 2-Mathilde Franziska Anneke: Powerful Translator; Chapter 3-Clara Neymann: Transatlantic Messenger; Chapter 4-The Transatlantic Space of "Women of Two Countries"; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Wendt, Mathilde
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Anneke, Mathilde Franziska Giesler, 1817-1884.
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Neymann, Clara, 1840-
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Anneke, Mathilde Franziska Giesler, 1817-1884 fast |
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Neymann, Clara, 1840- fast |
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Wendt, Mathilde fast |
| Subject |
German American women -- Political activity -- History -- 19th century
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Women immigrants -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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Women political activists -- United States -- Biography
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Women's rights -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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Nativism -- History -- 19th century
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HISTORY -- United States -- General.
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Nativism
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Women political activists
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Women's rights
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2012001644 |
| ISBN |
9780857455130 |
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0857455133 |
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