{"product_id":"mother-is-a-verb-an-unconventional-history-paperback","title":"Mother Is a Verb: An Unconventional History - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSarah Knott\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWelcome to a work of history unlike any other.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMothering is as old as human existence. But how has this most essential experience changed over time and cultures? What is the history of maternity--the history of pregnancy, birth, the encounter with an infant? Can one capture the historical trail of mothers? How? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eMother Is a Verb\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs a history, \u003ci\u003eMother Is a Verb\u003c\/i\u003e 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 London's East End. She pores over diaries, letters, court records, medical manuals, items of clothing. And she explores and documents her own experiences. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs a memoir, \u003ci\u003eMother Is a Verb\u003c\/i\u003e 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 infant's 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSarah Knott\u003c\/b\u003e grew up in England. Educated at Oxford University, she is now a professor of history at Indiana University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eSensibility and the American Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e and numerous articles on the histories of women, gender, and emotion. Knott has served as an editor of the\u003ci\u003e American Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e, the American Historical Association's flagship journal, and sits on the editorial board of \u003ci\u003ePast and Present\u003c\/i\u003e. She is a fellow of the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.7 x 5.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 25, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51772561752352,"sku":"9781250251299","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/afc546f56a4316bfa1457d083bbbcc38.webp?v=1780408532","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/mother-is-a-verb-an-unconventional-history-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}