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Family Secrets - Shame and Privacy in Modern Britain (Hardcover)
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Family Secrets - Shame and Privacy in Modern Britain (Hardcover)
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We live today in a culture of full disclosure, where tell-all
memoirs top the best-seller lists, transparency is lauded, and
privacy seems imperiled. But how did we get here?
Exploring scores of previously sealed records, Family Secrets
offers a sweeping account of how shame--and the relationship
between secrecy and openness--has changed over the last two
centuries in Britain. Deborah Cohen uses detailed sketches of
individual families as the basis for comparing different sorts of
social stigma. She takes readers inside an Edinburgh town house,
where a genteel maiden frets with her brother over their niece's
downy upper lip, a darkening shadow that might betray the girl's
Eurasian heritage; to a Liverpool railway platform, where a
heartbroken mother hands over her eight-year old illegitimate son
for adoption; to a town in the Cotswolds, where a queer vicar
brings to his bank vault a diary--sewed up in calico, wrapped in
parchment--that chronicles his sexual longings. Cohen explores what
families in the past chose to keep secret and why. She excavates
the tangled history of privacy and secrecy to explain why privacy
is now viewed as a hallowed right while secrets are condemned as
destructive.
In delving into the dynamics of shame and guilt, Family Secrets
explores the part that families, so often regarded as the agents of
repression, have played in the transformation of social mores from
the Victorian era to the present day. Written with compassion and
keen insight, this is a bold new argument about the sea-changes
that took place behind closed doors.
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