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Revolutionary conceptions : women, fertility, and family limitation in America, 1760-1820

Susan E. Klepp (Author)
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
eBook, English, 2009
University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 2009
History
1 online resource (vi, 312 pages) : illustrations
9781469600796, 9780807838716, 146960079X, 0807838713
861793438
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
"Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia."