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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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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2009]
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | 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. |
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| Description: | "Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia." |
| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (328 pages): illustrations |
| Récompenses: | American Historical Association Joan Kelly Memorial Prize, 2010. |
| ISBN: | 9781469600796 |