audiobook Women of Theresienstadt: Voices from a Concentration Camp by Ruth Schwertfeger in History

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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 of feminist and ethnic concerns between German- Americans and the US women's 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.