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



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Autore: Klepp Susan E. Visualizza persona
Titolo: Revolutionary conceptions : women, fertility, and family limitation in America, 1760-1820 / / Susan E. Klepp Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: 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
©2009
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (329 p.)
Disciplina: 304.6/66082097309033
Soggetto topico: Birth control - United States - History - 18th century
Women - United States - Social conditions - 18th century
Soggetto geografico: United States Social conditions To 1865
Note generali: Includes index.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Revolutionary conceptions  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 979-88-908854-7-0
1-4696-0079-X
0-8078-3871-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910819092203321
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Serie: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia