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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pascoe, Peggy
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 1993, ©1990.
Temas:
1800-1899
Abused women > West (U.S.) > History > 19th century.
Women volunteers in social service > West (U.S.) > History > 19th century.
Women's shelters > West (U.S.) > History > 19th century.
Church work with abused women > West (U.S.) > History > 19th century.
Women social reformers > West (U.S.) > History > 19th century.
Christian ethics > West (U.S.) > History > 19th century.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Abuse > Elder Abuse.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Abuse > Domestic Partner Abuse.
Abused women
Christian ethics
Church work with abused women
Moral conditions
Women social reformers
Women volunteers in social service
Women's shelters
West (U.S.) > Moral conditions.
West United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Notas:"First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 1993"--Title page verso.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xxiii, 301 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-291) and index.
ISBN:9780199729258
0199729255
1280526971
9781280526978

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