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Mother is a verb : an unconventional history / Sarah Knott.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Knott, Sarah, 1972- author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Motherhood.
Mothers.
Physical Description:
306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
New York : Sarah Crichton Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2019]
Contents:
Mothering by numbers
Generation
Finding out
Week ten, or eight weeks gone
Quickening
The rising of the apron
This giving birth
Hello, you
Tears and anecdotes
Staying the month
Damp cloth
Time, interrupted
The middle of the night
Pent milk
Uncertainty, or a thought experiment
Queer ideas at the clinic
Back and forth
Paper flowers
An oak dolly tub
Yard baby, lap baby
Navigating the times
The end of the night.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780374213589
0374213585
OCLC:
1036106088

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