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

By:

Klepp, Susan E [Author]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781469600796
9780807838716

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Genre/Form:

Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

HQ766 .R486 2009

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Contents:

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.

Awards:

American Historical Association Joan Kelly Memorial Prize, 2010.

Subject: 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.

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"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.

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American Historical Association Joan Kelly Memorial Prize, 2010.

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