| Description |
1 online resource (xxiii, 301 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
"First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 1993"--Title page verso. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-291) and index. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Contents -- Introduction58; The Search for Female Moral Authority -- ORIGINS AND IDEAS -- 146; Institutional Origins -- 246; The Ideology of Female Moral Authority44; 18748211;1900 -- SYSTEMS OF SOCIAL CONTROL AND RELATIONS AMONG WOMEN -- 346; Some Women39;s Culture and Other Women39;s Needs58; Motivations44; Maternalism44; and the Language of Gratitude -- 446; Home Mission Women44; Race44; and Culture58; The Case of 34;Native Helpers34; -- 546; Homes Outside the Rescue Homes -- ANTICLIMAX -- 646; The Crisis of Victorian Female Moral Authority44; 18908211;1939 -- Epilogue58; A Legacy to Ponder8212;Female Moral Authority and Contemporary Women39;s Culture -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Last Page. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Abused women -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century.
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Abused women. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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Women volunteers in social service -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century.
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Women volunteers in social service. |
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Women's shelters -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century.
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Women's shelters. |
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Church work with abused women -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century.
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Church work with abused women. |
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Women social reformers -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century.
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Women social reformers. |
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Christian ethics -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century.
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Christian ethics. |
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West (U.S.) -- Moral conditions.
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| Chronological Term |
1800 - 1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Pascoe, Peggy. Relations of rescue. New York : Oxford University Press, 1993, ©1990 0195084306 (OCoLC)41226695 |
| ISBN |
9780199729258 (electronic book) |
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0199729255 (electronic book) |
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1280526971 |
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9781280526978 |
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