| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 105.1

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Canada and the United States

Katherine G. Aiken. Harnessing the Power of Motherhood: The National Florence Crittenton Mission, 1883–1925. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 1998. Pp. xxiv, 266. $38.00.

Charles Crittenton established the Florence Crittenton Mission in 1883 to rescue prostitutes in New York City. Under Crittenton's leadership and that of his successor, Kate Waller Barrett, it became a national organization with homes for "fallen women" in seventy-three cities across the United States. Although historians have examined the National Florence Crittenton Mission (NFCM) before, this new study by Katherine G. Aiken is a detailed analysis that argues that the NFCM was one of the most significant social welfare movements at the turn of the century. Aiken places the organization in the mainstream of Progressive social welfare reform, with its emphasis on efficiency and the role of experts. Alluding to some of the recent scholarship on women's involvement in Progressive-era reform, Aiken also argues that a maternalist vision shaped the NFCM's work, as women became increasingly prominent in the organization. . . .

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