- Peggy Pascoe
Peggy Pascoe is an Associate Professor and Beekman Chair of Northwest and Pacific History, specializing in history of gender, race, and the U.S. West. She has been at the
University of Oregon since 1996. [ [http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~history/faculty/pascoe.htm U-Oregon bio] ]Education
* B.A. 1977 at
Montana State University
* M.A. 1980 atSarah Lawrence College
* Ph.D. 1986 atStanford University Professional Activities and Awards
*National Council, American Studies Association (1998-2001)
*Co-President, Coordinating Council for Women in History (1997-2000)
*ABC-CLIO America: History and Life Award (1997)
*National Endowment for the Humanities Grant (1996)
*University Distinguished Teaching Award (University of Utah, 1995)
*Jensen/Miller Article Prize (1991)Major publications
* "Relations of Rescue: The Search for Female Moral Authority in the American West, 1874-1939". New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.Themes explored include
# The romanticized theme of “white women civilizers of the West."
# The ethnocentric and class-based idealization of Anglo-Protestant “civilization.”
# Although the West offered opportunities for Victorian missionaries to exercise their moral authority and attain some political power and social influence, it also reinforced one facet of “womanhood” and entrenched women within this model. Ultimately, this rigid definition of the “true woman” limited society’s tolerance of the types of careers and activities women could engage.References
External links
* [http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~history/faculty/pascoe.htm Peggy Pascoe]
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