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Mother Is a Verb: An Unconventional History

By Sarah Knott
Narrated by: Rachel Bavidge
Unabridged — 11 hours, 10 minutes
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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 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 anecd...

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