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Revolutionary conceptions : women, fertility, and family limitation in America, 1760-1820 / Susan E. Klepp.

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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 the...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Klepp, Susan E. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2009]
Series:Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia.
Subjects:
Birth control > United States > History > 18th century.
Women > United States > Social conditions > 18th century.
United States > Social conditions > To 1865.
Birth control.
Social conditions
Women > Social conditions.
United States.
History.
Table of 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.

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