Mother: An Unconventional History
Autor Sarah Knotten Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 mar 2020
When acclaimed historian Sarah Knott became pregnant, she asked herself this question. But accounts of motherhood are hard to find. For centuries, historians have concerned themselves with wars, politics and revolutions, not the everyday details of carrying and caring for a baby. Much to do with becoming a mother, past or present, is lost or forgotten.
Using the arc of her own experience, from miscarriage to the birth and early babyhood of her two children, and drawing on letters, diaries, court records and paintings, Sarah Knott explores the ever-changing experiences of maternity across the ages. From the labour pains felt by an enslaved woman to the triumphant smile of a royal mistress bearing a king's first son; from a 1950s suburban housewife to a working-class East Ender taking her baby to the factory; these lost stories of mothering create a moving depiction of an ever-changing human experience.
'A joy to read'New York Times
'Timely and fascinating' Amanda Foreman
'Utterly compelling'Financial Times
'Knott manages to combine scholarship with personal experience in a heartfelt and original way. Every mother-to-be should read it'Sunday Times
'Wonderful... This is history at its best: writing that unfolds the past and sheds light on the present'Financial Times
'A stunning book, riveting from beginning to end' Diane Atkinson, author of 'Rise Up Women!: The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes'
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780241972748
ISBN-10: 0241972744
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0241972744
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Sarah
Knottgrew
up
in
England.
Educated
at
Oxford
University,
she
is
now
a
professor
of
history
at
Indiana
University
and
a
fellow
of
the
Kinsey
Institute.
She
is
the
author
ofSensibility
and
the
American
Revolutionand
numerous
articles
on
the
histories
of
women,
gender,
and
emotion.
Knott
has
served
as
an
editor
of
theAmerican
Historical
Review,
the
American
Historical
Association's
flagship
journal,
and
sits
on
the
editorial
board
ofPast
and
Present.
She
has
held
many
fellowships
including
from
the
Andrew
Mellon
foundation,
the
Rothermere
American
Institute,
and
the
Oxford
Centre
for
Life
Writing.
Recenzii
Wonderful...
utterly
compelling.This
is
history
at
its
best:
writing
that
unfolds
the
past
and
sheds
light
on
the
present
A joy to read,borne of raw curiosity and intelligence, nurtured into the world to fill a gap in understanding.
Knott manages to combine scholarship with personal experience in aheartfelt and originalway.Every mother-to-be should read it
A stunning book.Mother: An Unconventional Historyis a dextrous blend of autobiography and anthropology and social history, but above all love and a woman's desire to be a mother.It is riveting from beginning to end
Motheris a timely and fascinating investigation into one of the most overlooked and yet fundamental human experiences.Sarah Knott expertly weaves together a narrative that succeeds in being both intensely personal but also reassuringly historical.
Lyrically evocative and richly textured,Mothersets fragments of female lives over the last four centuries in Britain and North America within a narrative of Sarah Knott's own experiences to producea remarkable history - exploratory, pointillist, and intensely personal - of what it is, and has been, to be a mother.
In thisinnovative, grippingly readable history,Sarah Knott has woven a scintillating tapestry of ideas and experiences across time.Motheris amoving and enlighteningmeditation on the most elemental, yet ceaselessly varied, of all human bonds.
A remarkable book.Sarah Knott weaves an intimate account of becoming a mother into a richly-documented history of maternity.Eloquent and evocative, this is a book to savour and share with anyone who loves great history-writing.
This fabulous book manages both to recreate what those extraordinary early months of motherhood are like, and make sense of them by placing them in history.Knott's diary of motherhood is poetic: she conveys that sense that time has stopped, that only the baby's reflux matters, the heightened power of smell, the loss of self. The historical anecdotes Knott provides are riveting, and open up new ways of understanding what motherhood can be.The pace of it all is perfect - slow, and focused,- just as growth has its own imperceptible rhythms.This is a new kind of history-writing.A truly original, inspiring book.
Fascinating and beautifully written.A book I will feverishly press on others - both as an exploration of unheard histories and as a companion to pregnancy and early motherhood
In thisbeautifully writtenbook, Sarah Knott speaks from the vantage point of a mother and a historian. Full of stories ranging across time, space, and ethnicity, with imagery that touches all our senses,Mothercaptures the physicality and emotions of motherhood, so that even those of us who have never experienced it ourselves feel what it is like to get pregnant, give birth, and raise a child.
Which mother hasn't wondered how other mothers have managed, in different circumstances? Sarah Knott describes, for example, how a mother looked after her baby in a seventeenth-century East Anglian village; how another was a mistress of King Charles II; and a third was a slave on a North Carolina plantation. She has read through an extraordinary amount of rare diaries and letters, and then used her own sensitive imagination to bring these fragments to life. Each description is short, often only a page or two, so a mother who has just a few minutes to read before the next interruption can realistically hope to get to the end of one example, and then take that mother's situation with her, to think about, as she returns to her own. Sarah Knott had two children while she was researching and writing. Her examples are grouped in chronological order of her experience, but with unusual headings, such as 'Finding Out' that a woman is pregnant, 'Quickening', 'Damp Cloth', and 'The Middle of the Night'. The focus throughout is on mothers, and there is very little on how their babies are responding. But perhaps we readers are required to wake up some imagination of our own.
With the skill of a twenty-first-century mother juggling numerous professional and caring responsibilities, Sarah Knott'sMotherexpertly pulls off a delicate balancing act. Knott's poignant personal memoir of pregnancy, birth, feeding and beyond encapsulates its bloody, milky, hormonal immediacy, whilst, at the same time, she finds in each moment an echo of history, a thread situating her among women - their bodies, communities and cultural practices - across centuries and continents.
This lyrical book-one-third memoir, two-thirds history-guides us through centuries of pregnancy, childbirth, and infant care.Knott stitches her personal story to vignettes from the past and shows us how everyday mothering differed in time and place. With stunning prose, she gives us the sensory shorn of the sentimental.A riveting read
An original and important account of a universal but neglected experience.Motherpowerfully conveys the thrilling, bewildering, and fuzzy-headed atmosphere that surrounds pregnancy and childbirth, and offers a fascinating glimpse into the world of our mothering predecessors.
A joy to read,borne of raw curiosity and intelligence, nurtured into the world to fill a gap in understanding.
Knott manages to combine scholarship with personal experience in aheartfelt and originalway.Every mother-to-be should read it
A stunning book.Mother: An Unconventional Historyis a dextrous blend of autobiography and anthropology and social history, but above all love and a woman's desire to be a mother.It is riveting from beginning to end
Motheris a timely and fascinating investigation into one of the most overlooked and yet fundamental human experiences.Sarah Knott expertly weaves together a narrative that succeeds in being both intensely personal but also reassuringly historical.
Lyrically evocative and richly textured,Mothersets fragments of female lives over the last four centuries in Britain and North America within a narrative of Sarah Knott's own experiences to producea remarkable history - exploratory, pointillist, and intensely personal - of what it is, and has been, to be a mother.
In thisinnovative, grippingly readable history,Sarah Knott has woven a scintillating tapestry of ideas and experiences across time.Motheris amoving and enlighteningmeditation on the most elemental, yet ceaselessly varied, of all human bonds.
A remarkable book.Sarah Knott weaves an intimate account of becoming a mother into a richly-documented history of maternity.Eloquent and evocative, this is a book to savour and share with anyone who loves great history-writing.
This fabulous book manages both to recreate what those extraordinary early months of motherhood are like, and make sense of them by placing them in history.Knott's diary of motherhood is poetic: she conveys that sense that time has stopped, that only the baby's reflux matters, the heightened power of smell, the loss of self. The historical anecdotes Knott provides are riveting, and open up new ways of understanding what motherhood can be.The pace of it all is perfect - slow, and focused,- just as growth has its own imperceptible rhythms.This is a new kind of history-writing.A truly original, inspiring book.
Fascinating and beautifully written.A book I will feverishly press on others - both as an exploration of unheard histories and as a companion to pregnancy and early motherhood
In thisbeautifully writtenbook, Sarah Knott speaks from the vantage point of a mother and a historian. Full of stories ranging across time, space, and ethnicity, with imagery that touches all our senses,Mothercaptures the physicality and emotions of motherhood, so that even those of us who have never experienced it ourselves feel what it is like to get pregnant, give birth, and raise a child.
Which mother hasn't wondered how other mothers have managed, in different circumstances? Sarah Knott describes, for example, how a mother looked after her baby in a seventeenth-century East Anglian village; how another was a mistress of King Charles II; and a third was a slave on a North Carolina plantation. She has read through an extraordinary amount of rare diaries and letters, and then used her own sensitive imagination to bring these fragments to life. Each description is short, often only a page or two, so a mother who has just a few minutes to read before the next interruption can realistically hope to get to the end of one example, and then take that mother's situation with her, to think about, as she returns to her own. Sarah Knott had two children while she was researching and writing. Her examples are grouped in chronological order of her experience, but with unusual headings, such as 'Finding Out' that a woman is pregnant, 'Quickening', 'Damp Cloth', and 'The Middle of the Night'. The focus throughout is on mothers, and there is very little on how their babies are responding. But perhaps we readers are required to wake up some imagination of our own.
With the skill of a twenty-first-century mother juggling numerous professional and caring responsibilities, Sarah Knott'sMotherexpertly pulls off a delicate balancing act. Knott's poignant personal memoir of pregnancy, birth, feeding and beyond encapsulates its bloody, milky, hormonal immediacy, whilst, at the same time, she finds in each moment an echo of history, a thread situating her among women - their bodies, communities and cultural practices - across centuries and continents.
This lyrical book-one-third memoir, two-thirds history-guides us through centuries of pregnancy, childbirth, and infant care.Knott stitches her personal story to vignettes from the past and shows us how everyday mothering differed in time and place. With stunning prose, she gives us the sensory shorn of the sentimental.A riveting read
An original and important account of a universal but neglected experience.Motherpowerfully conveys the thrilling, bewildering, and fuzzy-headed atmosphere that surrounds pregnancy and childbirth, and offers a fascinating glimpse into the world of our mothering predecessors.