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

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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1. Verfasser: Klepp, Susan E. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2009]
Schriftenreihe:Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia.
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Zusammenfassung: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 they asserted, or attempted to assert, control over their bodies, their marriages, and their daughters' opportunities.
Beschreibung:"Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia."
Beschreibung:1 online resource (vi, 312 pages) : illustrations
Auszeichnungen:American Historical Association Joan Kelly Memorial Prize, 2010.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781469600796
146960079X
9780807838716
0807838713