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

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

Peggy Pascoe

328 pages • first pub 1990 (view editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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...

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