Revolutionary conceptions : women, fertility, and family limitation in America, 1760-1820 /
Klepp, Susan E.,
Revolutionary conceptions : women, fertility, and family limitation in America, 1760-1820 / Susan E. Klepp. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, (c)2009. - 1 online resource (vi, 312 pages) : illustrations - Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia .
"Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia."
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
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.
American Historical Association Joan Kelly Memorial Prize, 2010.
9781469600796 9780807838716
Birth control--History--United States--18th century.
Women--Social conditions--United States--18th century.
Medicine--History--18th century.
Electronic Books.
HQ766 / .R486 2009
Revolutionary conceptions : women, fertility, and family limitation in America, 1760-1820 / Susan E. Klepp. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, (c)2009. - 1 online resource (vi, 312 pages) : illustrations - Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia .
"Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia."
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
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.
American Historical Association Joan Kelly Memorial Prize, 2010.
9781469600796 9780807838716
Birth control--History--United States--18th century.
Women--Social conditions--United States--18th century.
Medicine--History--18th century.
Electronic Books.
HQ766 / .R486 2009