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

Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2009] ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 312 pages) : illustrations Series 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 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 Summary 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 Notes "Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia." Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes American Historical Association Joan Kelly Memorial Prize, 2010 Print version record Subject Birth control -- United States -- History -- 18th century Women -- United States -- Social conditions -- 18th century Medicine -- History -- 18th century. Birth Rate Contraception -- history Family Characteristics History, 18th Century History, 19th Century Social Conditions -- history Women's Rights -- history SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies. Medicine Birth control Social conditions Women -- Social conditions Familienplanung Familiengröße Fertilität Geburtenregelung Bevölkerungsentwicklung SUBJECT United States -- Social conditions -- To 1865. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140512 United States Subject United States USA Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781469600796 146960079X 9780807838716 0807838713

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