Revolutionary conceptions : women, fertility, and family limitation in America, 1760-1820 / Susan E. Klepp.

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2009], ©2009.

vi, 312 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

"Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.