Mother: An Unconventional History, by Sarah Knott

Rachel Moss praises a pioneering analysis that vividly captures the ‘fragmentary’ quality of both the experience of mothering a child and the historical record about it

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August 22, 2019

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August 22, 2019

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Print headline: Rocky terrains of the motherland

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