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

by Peggy Pascoe

Book Overview

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 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195084306
• ISBN13: 9780195084306
• Release Date: March 1993
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.3"