| Record ID | harvard_bibliographic_metadata/ab.bib.12.20150123.full.mrc:159220604:2595 |
| Source | harvard_bibliographic_metadata |
| Download Link | /show-records/harvard_bibliographic_metadata/ab.bib.12.20150123.full.mrc:159220604:2595?format=raw |
LEADER: 02595cam a22004574a 4500
001 012138597-3
005 20100514134854.0
008 090617s2009 ncua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2009024332
020 $a9780807833223 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a0807833223 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a9780807859926 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020 $a0807859923 (pbk. : alk. paper)
035 0 $aocn317929508
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dYDX
043 $an-us---
050 00 $aHQ766.5.U5$bK54 2009
060 00 $a2010 A-119
060 10 $aHQ 766.5.U5$bK64r 2009
082 00 $a304.6/66082097309033$222
100 1 $aKlepp, Susan E.
245 10 $aRevolutionary conceptions :$bwomen, fertility, and family limitation in America, 1760-1820 /$cSusan E. Klepp.
260 $aChapel Hill :$bUniversity of North Carolina Press,$cc2009.
300 $avi, 312 p. :$bill. ;$c25 cm.
500 $a"Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia."
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction : 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.
520 $aBy 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.
650 0 $aBirth control$zUnited States$xHistory$y18th century.
650 0 $aWomen$zUnited States$xSocial conditions$y18th century.
651 0 $aUnited States$xSocial conditions$yTo 1865.
650 12 $aContraception$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 22 $aBirth Rate$zUnited States.
650 22 $aFamily Characteristics$zUnited States.
650 22 $aHistory, 18th Century$zUnited States.
650 22 $aHistory, 19th Century$zUnited States.
650 22 $aSocial Conditions$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 22 $aWomen's Rights$zUnited States$xHistory.
655 7 $aHistory.$2fast
988 $a20091204
906 $0DLC