Relations of Rescue - Pascoe, Peggy
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The story of a group of Protestant women who came together in the 1870s to construct a dominion of female authority. Playing on the 19th-century belief that women were pious and pure moral guardians, these Protestant women set out to rescue female victims of male abuse.
In this study of rescue homes for women in the American West, Pascoe explores the relationships between women reformers and their male opponents, and between the reformers and the women they sought to reform (Chinese immigrants, Mormon polygamous wives, American Indians, and unmarried mothers), raising provocative questions…mehr

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The story of a group of Protestant women who came together in the 1870s to construct a dominion of female authority. Playing on the 19th-century belief that women were pious and pure moral guardians, these Protestant women set out to rescue female victims of male abuse.
In this study of rescue homes for women in the American West, Pascoe explores the relationships between women reformers and their male opponents, and between the reformers and the women they sought to reform (Chinese immigrants, Mormon polygamous wives, American Indians, and unmarried mothers), raising provocative questions about historians' understanding of the dynamics of social feminism, social control, and intercultural relations.