Family Secrets: Shame and Privacy in Modern Britain
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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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0199977801
ISBN13:9780199977802
Release Date:April 2013
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Length:390 Pages
Weight:0.05 lbs.
Dimensions:1.3" x 6.4" x 9.5"
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