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Genre/Form: | History |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Susan E Klepp |
ISBN: | 9780807833223 0807833223 9780807859926 0807859923 |
OCLC Number: | 317929508 |
Notes: | "Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia." |
Awards: | American Historical Association Joan Kelly Memorial Prize, 2010. |
Description: | vi, 312 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
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. |
Responsibility: | Susan E. Klepp. |
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Abstract:
In the Age of Revolution, how did American women conceive their lives and marital obligations? Examining the attitudes and behaviors surrounding the contentious issues of family, contraception, abortion, sexuality, and identity, this book demonstrates that many women - rural and urban, free and enslaved - began to radically redefine motherhood.
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