Revolutionary conceptions : women, fertility, and family limitation in America, 1760-1820
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
Print Book, English, ©2009
University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, ©2009