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Revolutionary conceptions : women, fertility, and family limitation in America, 1760-1820
Title:
Revolutionary conceptions : women, fertility, and family limitation in America, 1760-1820
Author:
Klepp, Susan E.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2009]

©2009
Physical Description:
vi, 312 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Summary:
By examining the attitudes and behaviors surrounding the contentious issues of family, contraception, abortion, sexuality, beauty, and identity, Klepp demonstrates that many American women--rural and urban, free and enslaved--began to radically redefine motherhood during the Age of Revolution as they asserted, or attempted to assert, control over their bodies, their marriages, and their daughters' opportunities.
General Note:
"Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia."
Language:
English
Contents:
Introduction. first to fall: fertility, American women, and revolution -- Starting, spacing, and stopping: the statistics of birth and family size -- Old ways and new -- Women's words -- Beauty and the bestial: images of women -- Potions, pills, and jumping ropes: the technology of birth control -- Increase and multiply: embarrassed men and public order -- Reluctant revolutionaries -- Conclusion. fertility and the feminine in early America.
ISBN:
9780807833223

9780807859926
Format :
Book