Relations of Rescue The Search for Female Moral Authority in the American West, 1874-1939

Name: Relations of Rescue The Search for Female Moral Authority in the American West, 1874-1939
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ISBN: 9780195060089

ISBN-10: 0195060083

ISBN-13: 9780195060089

Edition: 1990

Authors: Peggy Pascoe

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In this study of late nineteeth-century moral reform, Peggy Pascoe examines four specific cases--a home for Chinese prostitutes in San Francisco, California; a home for polygamous Mormon women in Salt Lake City, Utah; a home for unmarried mothers in Denver, Colorado; and a program for American Indians on the Omaha Reservation in Nebraska--to tell the story of the women who established missionary rescue homes for women in the American West. Focusing on two sets of relationships--those between women reformers and their male opponents, and those between women reformers and the various groups of women they sought to shelter--Pascoe traces the gender relations that framed the reformers' search…

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List price: $63.00
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/29/1990
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 324
Size: 5.81" wide x 8.56" long x 1.07" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

Peggy Pascoe is Beekman Professor of Northwest and Pacific History at the University of Oregon.



Acknowledgments


Introduction The Search for Female Moral Authority



Institutional Origins



The Ideology of Female Moral Authority, 1874-1900



Some Women's Culture and Other Women's Needs: Motivations, Maternalism, and the Language of Gratitude



Home Mission Women, Race, and Culture: the Case of """"Native Helpers""""



Homes outside the Rescue Homes



The Crisis of Victorian Female Moral Authority, 1890-1939


Epilogue: A Legacy to Ponder: Female Moral Authority and Contemporary Women's Culture


Abbreviations


Notes


Bibliography


Index