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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...

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Autor principal: Klepp, Susan E. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2009]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.