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Mother Is a Verb audiobook
- By: Sarah Knott
- Narrator: Rachel Bavidge
- Category: Biography & Autobiography, Women
- Length: 11 hours 10 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: April 02, 2019
- Language: English
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Mother Is a Verb Audiobook Summary
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 maternity–the 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 audiobook 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 London’s 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 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.
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Mother Is a Verb Audiobook Narrator
Rachel Bavidge is the narrator of Mother Is a Verb audiobook that was written by Sarah Knott
Sarah Knott grew up in England. Educated at Oxford University, she is now a professor of history at Indiana University. She is the author of Sensibility and the American Revolution and numerous articles on the histories of women, gender, and emotion. Knott has served as an editor of the American Historical Review, the American Historical Association’s flagship journal, and sits on the editorial board of Past and Present. She is a fellow of the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction.
About the Author(s) of Mother Is a Verb
Sarah Knott is the author of Mother Is a Verb
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Mother Is a Verb Full Details
| Narrator | Rachel Bavidge |
| Length | 11 hours 10 minutes |
| Author | Sarah Knott |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Macmillan Audio |
| Release date | April 02, 2019 |
| ISBN | 9781250319456 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Mother Is a Verb is Macmillan Audio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Biography & Autobiography, Women
Additional info
The publisher of the Mother Is a Verb is Macmillan Audio. The imprint is Macmillan Audio. It is supplied by Macmillan Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781250319456.
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This book is only available in the United States.
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