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Revolutionary conceptions : women, fertility, and family limitation in America, 1760-1820 Susan E. Klepp
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks HQ 766.5 .U5 K54 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Klepp, Susan E.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Birth control--United States--History--18th century.
- Birth control.
- Women--United States--Social conditions--18th century.
- Women.
- United States--Social conditions--To 1865.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 312 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009.
- 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.
- Notes:
- "Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780807833223 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0807833223 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780807859926 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0807859923 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- OCLC:
- 317929508
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