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.

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

• 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
• Chapter Notes

Chapter 1. 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
• Chapter Notes

Chapter 2. 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
• Chapter Notes

Chapter 3. Clara Neymann: Transatlantic Messenger

• Neymann's German-American political apprenticeship
• Women Suffrage and Temperance in Nebraska 1882
• Neymann's Ethnicization at NWSA Washington Conventions
• Neymann as Messenger in Germany
• Chapter Notes

Chapter 4. The Transatlantic Space of "Women of Two Countries"

• The Ascendance of the US-American Avant-Garde
• The Paradox of Nativism
• Chapter Notes

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