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Welcome to a work of history unlike any other. Mothering is as old as human existence. But how to have this most essential experience is 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? From enslaved people on South Carolina rice plantations to tenement resers 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. Ace a memoir, Mother Is a Verb takes 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 tell of grand narratives, but through the painstaking accumulation of a trellis of anecdotes. And all the moments, we can feel the child on her hip.