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Relations of Rescue: The Search for Female Moral Authority in the American West, 1874-1939 Pascoe, Peggy (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, University of Utah)
Relations of Rescue: The Search for Female Moral Authority in the American West, 1874-1939
Pascoe, Peggy (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, University of Utah)
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.
324 pages, halftones throughout
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | August 2, 1990 |
| ISBN13 | 9780195060089 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press |
| Pages | 328 |
| Dimensions | 149 × 219 × 26 mm · 603 g |
| Language | English |