Women of Two Countries

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