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Revolutionary conceptions : women, fertility, and family limitation in America, 1760-1820 /
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 the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2009]
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| Colección: | Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.