Relations of rescue :: the search for female moral authority in the American west, 1874-1939 /

In this study of late nineteenth-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 forAmerican India...

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1. Verfasser: Pascoe, Peggy
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York : Oxford University Press, 1993, ©1990.
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Zusammenfassung:In this study of late nineteenth-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 forAmerican 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 thevarious groups of w.
Beschreibung:"First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 1993"--Title page verso.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xxiii, 301 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-291) and index.
ISBN:9780199729258
0199729255
1280526971
9781280526978