Sarah Knott
Auteur van Mother Is a Verb: An Unconventional History
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Sarah Knott is associate professor of history at Indiana University and coeditor of Women, Gender, and Enlightenment
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Many interesting historical facts come to light:
• The concept of 2 nights (first night, second night) from when people went to bed when the sun went down)
• Co-sleeping, in and out of fashion
• Dowager babies, name given child when displaced by a newborn.
• Plenty of euphemisms for being pregnant: ‘The rising of the apron’, ‘In the pudding club’, ‘Up the duff’, ‘A bun in the oven’ ...
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