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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Klepp, Susan E. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2009]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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.
Item Description:"Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia."
Physical Description:1 online resource (328 pages): illustrations
Awards:American Historical Association Joan Kelly Memorial Prize, 2010.
ISBN:9781469600796