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Autore |
Klepp Susan E. |
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Titolo |
Revolutionary conceptions : women, fertility, and family limitation in America, 1760-1820 / / Susan E. Klepp |
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Chapel Hill, [North Carolina] : , : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, , 2009 |
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©2009 |
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ISBN |
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979-88-908854-7-0 |
1-4696-0079-X |
0-8078-3871-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (329 p.) |
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Collana |
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Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Birth control - United States - History - 18th century |
Women - United States - Social conditions - 18th century |
United States Social conditions To 1865 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In the Age of Revolution, how did American women conceive their lives and marital obligations? By examining the attitudes and behaviours surrounding the contentious issues of family, contraception, abortion, sexuality, beauty, and identity, this book demonstrates that many women - rural and urban, free and enslaved - began to radically redefine motherhood. They asserted, or attempted to assert, control over their bodies, their marriages, and their daughters' opportunities. |
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