Relations of Rescue: The Search for Female Moral Authority by Peggy Pascoe
By Peggy Pascoe
During this examine of overdue nineteenth-century ethical reform, Peggy Pascoe examines 4 particular cases--a domestic for chinese language prostitutes in San Francisco, California; a house for polygamous Mormon girls in Salt Lake urban, Utah; a house for single moms in Denver, Colorado; and a application for American Indians at the Omaha Reservation in Nebraska--to inform the tale of the ladies who tested missionary rescue houses for ladies within the American West. concentrating on units of relationships--those among ladies reformers and their male competitors, and people among ladies reformers and many of the teams of ladies they sought to shelter--Pascoe lines the gender family members that framed the reformers' look for girl ethical authority, analyzes the interplay among ladies reformers and the ladies who entered the rescue houses, and increases provocative questions on historians' knowing of the dynamics of social feminism, social keep watch over, and intercultural relations.
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In the 1880s, however, Gentiles gained momentum. In 1882, Congress passed the Edmunds Act, which outlawed polygamy, disfranchised polygamists, and sent a five-member Utah Commission to oversee all local elections. Mormons held on to local power in the 1883 elections, but in 1884, federal officials initiated court proceedings against the first of 1,200 polygamists. 72 But for Salt Lake City home mission women, polygamy was not merely the conveniently sensational adjunct to political and economic concerns it seemed to many men; it was the primary issue.
4 Pioneering feminist scholars disagreed. 5 Although both these interpretations were an advance over the Ideology of Female Moral Authority 35 sentimentality thesis, they made it difficult to understand why Victorian women as well as men promoted "the Christian home" with obvious enthusiasm. Recent historians of the family offer one solution to this puzzle. Comparing the Victorian family to its traditional predecessor rather than to its modern successor, they analyzed the late-eighteenth-century transition from colonial to Victorian marriage.
12 Breaking away from denominational missionary organizations administered by men, evangelical women formed their own missionary societies, this time devoted to projects chosen by churchwomen rather than churchmen. 14 Not surprisingly for women raised in a culture that prized sexual restraint, they zeroed in on groups whose behavior seemed to them to raise the spectre of unrestrained sexuality; among them unmarried mothers, Mormons, American Indians, and Chinese immigrants. Enthusiasm spread quickly from denominational to interdenominational women's groups.