TY  - BOOK
AU  - Klepp,Susan E.
TI  - Revolutionary conceptions: women, fertility, and family limitation in America, 1760-1820 
T2  - Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia
SN  - 9781469600796
AV  - HQ766 .R486 2009
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Birth control
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Women
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Medicine
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - "Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia."; 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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