Family Secrets Shame and Privacy in Modern Britain

Name: Family Secrets Shame and Privacy in Modern Britain
Price: 16.6 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780199977802

ISBN-10: 0199977801

ISBN-13: 9780199977802

Edition: 2013

Authors: Deborah Cohen

List price: $63.00

This item qualifies for FREE shipping.

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Buy new: $73.59

Marketplace

3 new & used from $16.60

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

In an Edinburgh town house, a genteel maiden lady frets with her brother over their neice's downy upper lip. Woud the darkening shadow betray the girl's Eurasian heritage? On a Liverppol railway platform, a heartbroken mother hands over her eight-year old illegitimate son for adoption; she had dressed him carefully that morning in a sailor suit and cap. In a town in the Cotswolds, a queer vicar brings to his bank vault a diary - sewed up in calico, wrapped in parchment - that chronicles his sexual longings and his father's views on the subject.This is a book about what families hid in the past and why. Drawing upon scores of previously sealed records, it offers a sweeping account of hwo…

Book details

List price: $63.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/24/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 390
Size: 9.49" wide x 6.43" long x 1.29" tall
Weight: 1.452
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Introduction



Telling Secrets



The Nabob's Secrets



Revelation in the Divorce Court



Shame and Guilt, Nature and Nurture



Children Who Disappeared



Other People's Bastards



Bachelor Uncles



Secret No More?



Talking It Out



The Repressive Family


Epilogue: Genealogy and Confessional Culture


Acknowledgments


Notes


Select Bibliography


Index