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| Format | Book Chapter |
|---|---|
| Author, Analytic | Blaschke, Monika |
| Title, Analytic | Communicating the Old and the New: German Immigrant Women and Their Press in Comparative Perspective around 1900 |
| Author, Monographic | Dirk Hoerder and Jörg Nagler, eds. |
| Title, Monographic | People in Transit: German Migrations in Comparative Perspective, 1820-1930 |
| Place of Publication | Cambridge |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press/German Historical Institute |
| Date of Publication | 1995 |
| Location in Work | 313-327 |
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| Abstract | "This essay sets out to serve a double purpose: first, to introduce a variety of ethnic women's magazines and pages into the discussion; and second, to demonstrate their value for an analysis of the lives of immigrant women. Exploring the role of gender and probing into some of the changes taking place in the late nineteenth century can add significantly to our understanding of the foreign-language press. "Part 1 lays out in some detail the relationship between women and the German American press. Attracting the woman reader emerges as one of the most successful strategies devised by the German American press to ward off the coming decline after immigration figures began to drop in the early 1890s. Part 2 pays particular attention to the ways the immigrant press promoted divergent visions of women's roles. The socialist press serves as a special case in point. Part 3 takes a closer look at the women involved. It highlights interests and activities of women readers as well as the options for immigrant women to take up careers in journalism themselves. While the German American women's press will be at the center of this brief and necessarily incomplete survey, comparisons to other ethnic groups will be drawn throughout." |
| Call Number | Digital file (PDF) |
| MKI Terms | Women/ German-American press/ Periodicals, German-American/ Social conditions |