Keeping Family Secrets: Shame and Silence in Memoirs from the 1950s

by Margaret K. Nelson

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From teen pregnancy and gay sexuality to Communism and disability, the startling secrets that families kept during the Cold War era

All families have secrets but the facts requiring secrecy change with time. Nowadays A lesbian partnership, a "bastard" son, an aunt who is a prostitute, or a criminal grandfather might be of little or no consequence but could have unraveled a family at an earlier moment in history. Margaret K. Nelson...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1479815624

ISBN13:9781479815623

Release Date:November 2022

Publisher:New York University Press

Length:256 Pages

Weight:1.10 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.2" x 9.1"

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