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Susan E. Klepp

Cloth ISBN 978-0-8078-3322-3 $65.00
Paper ISBN 978-0-8078-5992-6 $24.95

Copyright 2009 by The University of North Carolina Press

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“Klepp’s adept use of quantitative data and visual imagery makes the fertility transition real in cultural as well as demographic terms. We see the transformation in the representations of women’s bodies and calculate the shift in numbers of births. Her knowledge of the evidence is unsurpassed, and she presents her finding with clarity and insight.”

“Susan Klepps brilliant research reveals that an intimate American Revolution lurked under the familiar one, destabilizing old ways and quietly transforming American society in ways that few men understood. She challenges much that we thought we knew; many otherwise admirable books now feel outdated.”

“Written by one of our most distinguished historians, this marvelous book analyzes the revolution by the women of Americas founding generations to assume greater control over their lives. This shift in consciousness and behavior transformed the new nation every bit as much as did the traditional political revolution.”

“Specialists and students alike now have an excellent, strongly argued monograph on long-term fertility decline in the United States that highlights women’s choices. While carefully delineating regional and racial variations in patterns of fertility, Klepp convincingly makes the case that women deliberately limited family size in the name of new ideals about personal autonomy and mutuality in marriage promoted by the American Revolution and evangelical Christianity.”