Artikel
German American women's clubs : constructing women's roles and ethnic identity
Verfasst von:
Ortlepp, Anke
in:
Heidelberg:
2003
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425 - 442 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Ortlepp, Anke |
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| Jahr: | 2003 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| Like their male relatives German-American women in Milwaukee were fond of organizing. At a time when the city's German community reached its greatest extension and complexity these women were involved in a wide variety of activites, appropriating for themselves all types of organizational forms. By buidling their own organizations, German-American women proved their ability to create their own spaces in which they could come togesther outside the home and invest their engergies in projects beyond the immediate concern of the family. While some areas of activity, like the different reforme movements, were almost completely ignored, it can safely be argued that by organizing and besoming involved German-American women were able to realize their potential as social agents and to make crucial contributions to community-building processes. At the same time they were able to move beyond the gender role of wife and mother, which had restricted them for so long | |
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