Revolutionary conceptions
Subtitle: women, fertility, and family limitation in America, 1760-1820
By: Susan E. Klepp.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780807833223; 9780807859926
Subjects: Birth control -- United States -- History -- 18th century; Women -- United States -- Social conditions -- 18th century; United States -- Social conditions -- To 1865
Notes: "Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. first to fall: fertility, American women, and revolution; title: Starting, spacing, and stopping: the statistics of birth and family size; title: Old ways and new; title: Women's words; title: Beauty and the bestial: images of women; title: Potions, pills, and jumping ropes: the technology of birth control; title: Increase and multiply: embarrassed men and public order; title: Reluctant revolutionaries; title: Conclusion. fertility and the feminine in early America.