Revolutionary Conceptions : Women, Fertility, and Family Limitation in America, 1760-1820 /

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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.
Subjects:
Bevölkerungsentwicklung
Geburtenregelung
Fertilität
Familiengrösse
Familienplanung
Women > Social conditions.
Social conditions
Birth control.
Medicine.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
Medecine > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Medecine > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Femmes > États-Unis > Conditions sociales > 18e siecle.
Regulation des naissances > États-Unis > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Women's Rights > history
Social Conditions > history
History, 19th Century
History, 18th Century
Family Characteristics
Contraception > history
Birth Rate
Medicine > History > 18th century.
Women > United States > Social conditions > 18th century.
Birth control > United States > History > 18th century.
USA.
United States.
États-Unis > Conditions sociales > Jusqu'à 1865.
United States
United States > Social conditions > To 1865.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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