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Revolutionary conceptions : women, fertility, and family limitation in America, 1760-1820
- Author
- Klepp, Susan E.
- Title
- Revolutionary conceptions : women, fertility, and family limitation in America, 1760-1820 / Susan E. Klepp.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009.
- Description
- vi, 312 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- Notes
- "Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia." Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
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- Introduction. first to fall: fertility, American women, and revolution
- Starting, spacing, and stopping: the statistics of birth and family size
- 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.
- Kinsey subjects
- Contraception--United States--18th century. Women medical advice--United States--18th century.
- ISBN
- 9780807833223 (cloth : alk. paper) 0807833223 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780807859926 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0807859923 (pbk. : alk. paper)