Revolutionary Conceptions by Susan E Klepp
In the Age of Revolution, how did American women conceive their lives and marital obligations? By examining the attitudes and behaviors surrounding the contentious issues of family, contraception, abortion, sexuality, beauty, and identity, Susan E. Klepp demonstrates that many women - rural and urban, free and enslaved - began to radically redefine motherhood. They asserted, or attempted to assert, control over their bodies, their marriages, and their daughters' opportunities. Late-eighteenth-century American women were among the first in the world to disavow the continual childbearing and large families that had long been considered ideal. Liberty, equality, and heartfelt religion led to new conceptions of virtuous, rational womanhood and responsible parenthood. These changes can be seen in falling birthrates, in advice to friends and kin, in portraits, and in a gradual, even reluctant, shift in men's opinions. Revolutionary-era women redefined femininity, fertility, family, and their futures by limiting births. Women might not have won the vote in the new Republic, they might not have gained formal rights in other spheres, but, Klepp argues, there was a women's revolution nonetheless.-
The Adams-Jefferson Letters
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Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs
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Notes on the State of Virginia
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The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787
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A Colony of Citizens
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The Commonplace Book of William Byrd II of Westover
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Moral Capital
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Captives and Cousins
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Sugar and Slaves
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The Home Front
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Underwriters of the United States
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The Devil and Doctor Dwight
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Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570-1640
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The Stamp Act Crisis
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Liberty Men and Great Proprietors
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Daniel Morgan
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The Howe Brothers and the American Revolution
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Princes of Ireland, Planters of Maryland
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The Other Founders
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Thirteen Clocks
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The Ordeal of the Longhouse
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The Elusive Republic
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In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes
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America in European Consciousness, 1493-1750
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Women Before the Bar
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A Revolutionary People at War
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Forced Founders
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The Road to Mobocracy
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Virginia 1619
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John Witherspoon’s American Revolution
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Freedom's Debt
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Motives of Honor, Pleasure, and Profit
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The Diary, and Life, of William Byrd II of Virginia, 1674-1744
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Darkness Falls on the Land of Light
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The Common Cause
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Standard-Bearers of Equality
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The Precisianist Strain
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A Harmony of the Spirits
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The American Revolution
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The Correspondence of John Cotton
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Allegories of EncounterColonial Literacy and Indian Captivities
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The Glorious Revolution in America
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Men of Letters in the Early Republic
Susan E. Klepp is Professor of History at Temple University and Affiliated Professor of Women's Studies and African American Studies. Farley Grubb is Professor of Economics and History at the University of Delaware. Anne Pfaelzer de Ortiz is an independent researcher and freelance writer.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780807859926 |
| ISBN 10 | 0807859923 |
| Title | Revolutionary Conceptions |
| Author | Susan E Klepp |
| Series | Published By The Omohundro Institute Of Early American History And Culture And The University Of North Carolina Press |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | The University of North Carolina Press |
| Year published | 2009-12-01 |
| Number of pages | 328 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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