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Revolutionary conceptions : women, fertility, and family limitation in America, 1760-1820

Susan E. Klepp

Available at UDM McNichols Campus Library UDM McNichols Library Stacks (HQ 766.5 .U5 K54 2009 )()

Title:
Revolutionary conceptions : women, fertility, and family limitation in America, 1760-1820
Author: Susan E. Klepp
Description: 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.
Local Note: acq2010wos
Publication Date: c2009
Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press
Format: vi, 312 p. : ill ; 24 cm.
Identifier: ISBN 9780807833223 (cloth : alk. paper);ISBN 0807833223 (cloth : alk. paper);ISBN 9780807859926 (pbk. : alk. paper);ISBN 0807859923 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subjects: Birth control -- United States -- History -- 18th century; Women -- United States -- Social conditions -- 18th century; Contraception -- history -- United States; Birth Rate -- United States; Family Characteristics -- United States; History, 18th Century -- United States; History, 19th Century -- United States; Social Conditions -- history -- United States; Women's Rights -- history -- United States; United States -- Social conditions -- To 1865
Language: English
Source: 01DAL UDM ALMA

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