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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, (c)2009.Description: 1 online resource (vi, 312 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781469600796
  • 9780807838716
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HQ766 .R486 2009
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
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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