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Mother Is a Verb: An Unconventional HistoryWelcome 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
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 book 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.Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 08/25/2020
ISBN: 9781250251299
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.80w x 0.80d
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Good quality dress shirt
Size: 16"-16.5" Neck 34"-35" Sleeve, Color: Black
this is a wrinkle resistant regular fit shirt with a regular sized length in both arms and at waist. The style is dressy and it is of very good quality material. It is a regular cut and not slim. Very nice shirt I recommend
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Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2025
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Good dress shirts
Size: 17"-17.5" Neck 36"-37" Sleeve, Color: Graphite
Good fitting, well built and comfortable.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2026
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Works for me!
Size: 15"-15.5" Neck 34"-35" Sleeve, Color: Hazy Blue
I needed a couple shirts for wearing under a sport coat, these will do nicely. I got them in Blue and Grey. As with all dress shirts, I’ll have to wash them to get the wrinkles out, I hit them with my portable steamer as well. They aren’t think enough to hold a good ironing unless you use spray starch, but for $20 I’m fine with that. The tag on the shirts said $60, I would be pretty disappointed if I actually paid $60 for them; but for $20 the value is good.
I’m 5’8” and 180, so got the Medium 15/15 1/2 Regular fit, it’s a great fit for me. They came out of the wash fine, and are soft to the touch. I would expect them to wear as expected for a $20 shirt, and think the durability will be fine.
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Reviewed in the United States on September 29, 2025
★★★★★ 5
Very Nice Dress Shirt for business Plus!
Size: 15"-15.5" Neck 32"-33" Sleeve, Color: White
My husband was pleasantly surprised as we never would have purchased a dress shirt on Amazon as never considered clothing as something marketed on Amazon. Gave it a try and everything was good.....fit, length, and fabric.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2026
★★★★★ 3
Okay overall.
Size: 15"-15.5" Neck 32"-33" Sleeve, Color: Pink, Size: 15"-15.5" Neck 32"-33" Sleeve, Color: Pink
It's an okay shirt with some issues. For one, it runs pretty big. Glad I got a medium as it fits me like a large which is my usual size. As for the sleeves, I have pretty average length arms so the 32-33" fits me perfectly just like on the model in the images.
Second issue is the shirt came packaged with a bunch of needle pins that left some small holes/marks in the front and back bottom of the shirt. They're not super noticeable unless you know they are there.
Lastly, the color in the image is duller than in person. In natural lighting it's a more vibrant pink. Comes pretty wrinkly out of the package. Needs ironing or wrinkle releaser.
One thing that would make it better is if it had a pocket, but I only really intend to layer it under a jacket so I'm not worried about it.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2026