ISBN:
9781469600796
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146960079X
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
Online Ressource (vi, 312 pages)
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illustrations
Suppl.:
Rezensiert in Gundersen, Joan R. [Rezension von: Klepp, Susan E., Revolutionary Conceptions: Women, Fertility, and Family Limitation in America, 1760-1820] 2011
Serie:
Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia
Paralleltitel:
Print version Klepp, Susan E Revolutionary conceptions
DDC:
304.666082097309033
Schlagwort(e):
Birth control History
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18th century
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United States
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Women Social conditions
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18th century
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United States
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Women Social conditions 18th century
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Birth control History 18th century
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Women Social conditions 18th century
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Birth control History 18th century
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United States
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United States
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USA
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Contraception history
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Birth Rate
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Family Characteristics
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History, 18th Century
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History, 19th Century
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Social Conditions history
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Women's Rights history
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Women's Studies
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Birth control
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Social conditions
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Women ; Social conditions
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Familienplanung
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Familiengröße
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Fertilität
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Geburtenregelung
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Bevölkerungsentwicklung
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History
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United States Social conditions
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To 1865
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United States Social conditions To 1865
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United States Social conditions To 1865
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United States
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USA
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United States
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Electronic books
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Electronic books History
Kurzfassung:
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
Kurzfassung:
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
Anmerkung:
"Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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