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Welcome to a work of history unlike any other.Mothering is as old as human existence. But how has this most essential experience changed over time and cultures? What is the history of maternitythe history of pregnancy, birth, the encounter with an infant? Can one capture the historical trail of mothers? How?In Mother Is a Verb, the historian Sarah Knott creates a genre all her own in order to craft a new kind of historical interpretation. Blending memoir and history and building from anecdote, her book brings the past and the present viscerally alive. It is at once intimate and expansive, lyrical and precise.As a history, Mother Is a Verb draws on the terrain of Britain and North America from the seventeenth century to the close of the twentieth. Knott searches among a range of past societies, from those of Cree and Ojibwe women to tenant farmers in Appalachia; from enslaved people on South Carolina rice plantations to tenement dwellers in New York City and Londons East End. She pores over diaries, letters, court records, medical manuals, items of clothing. And she explores and documents her own experiences.As a memoir, Mother Is a Verb becomes a method of asking new questions and probing lost pasts in order to historicize the smallest, even the most mundane of human experiences. Is there a history to interruption, to the sound of an infants cry, to sleeplessness? Knott finds answers not through the telling of grand narratives, but through the painstaking accumulation of a trellis of anecdotes. And all the while, we can feel the child on her hip.
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I picked up 'Mother is a Verb' hoping for something different, and it didn’t disappoint. The unconventional history presented was eye-opening, especially how it connects motherhood with various cultural contexts. It’s a great choice for anyone interested in gender studies!
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Sofia Chen
A thought-provoking read!
I picked up 'Mother is a Verb' hoping for something different, and it didn’t disappoint. The unconventional history presented was eye-opening, especially how it connects motherhood with various cultural contexts. It’s a great choice for anyone interested in gender studies!
S
Sofia Chen
A thought-provoking read!
I picked up 'Mother is a Verb' hoping for something different, and it didn’t disappoint. The unconventional history presented was eye-opening, especially how it connects motherhood with various cultural contexts. It’s a great choice for anyone interested in gender studies!
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James O’Connor
Interesting but a bit long-winded
The book has some fascinating insights into motherhood, but I felt it dragged on in certain sections. While I appreciate the depth, I was hoping for a more concise exploration of its themes. Still, I enjoyed the overall perspective!
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James O’Connor
Interesting but a bit long-winded
The book has some fascinating insights into motherhood, but I felt it dragged on in certain sections. While I appreciate the depth, I was hoping for a more concise exploration of its themes. Still, I enjoyed the overall perspective!
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