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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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Women, Gender and Enlightenment (2005) — Redacteur, sommige edities9 exemplaren

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An interesting blend of the history of mothering through the ages mixed with personal experiences of two pregnancies. Concentrating on America and Great Britain.
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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GeoffSC | Aug 20, 2023 |
Mixed with personal reflection, Knott tries to recover what it was like to be a mother—to realize you were pregnant, to give birth, to feed the baby—in English and US history. Much of the point is that these bodily functions, while seeming universal, have left very few traces, both because of patriarchy and because they are distracting and anti-writing in their very materiality. I’m cranky and didn’t get much from the personal elements.
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rivkat | Jun 6, 2019 |

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