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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     More Content       More by this author     Cohen, Deborah, 1968-     Subjects     Disabilities -- Great Britain -- Case studies.     Families -- Great Britain -- Case studies.     Illegitimacy -- Great Britain -- Case studies.     Homosexuality -- Great Britain -- Case studies.     Family secrets -- Great Britain -- Case studies.     Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.     Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Cohen, Deborah, 1968-       by title:      Family secrets : liv...       by call number:      306.8509 C678f     Search the Web     Cohen, Deborah, 1968-     Disabilities -- Great Britain -- Case studies.     Families -- Great Britain -- Case studies.     Illegitimacy -- Great Britain -- Case studies.     Homosexuality -- Great Britain -- Case studies.     Family secrets -- Great Britain -- Case studies.     Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.     Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.       MARC Display

Family secrets : living with shame from the Victorians to the present day / Deborah Cohen. by Cohen, Deborah, 1968- Viking, 2013. Call #: 306.8509 C678f Subjects Disabilities -- Great Britain -- Case studies.   Families -- Great Britain -- Case studies.   Illegitimacy -- Great Britain -- Case studies.   Homosexuality -- Great Britain -- Case studies.   Family secrets -- Great Britain -- Case studies.   Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.   Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 20th century. ISBN:  9780670917662 (hc.) 0670917664 (hc.) Description:  xx, 371 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-353) and index. Summary:  A gripping book about what families - Victorian and modern - try to hide, and why. On a Liverpool 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 vicar brings to his bank vault a diary - sewed up in calico, wrapped in parchment - that chronicles his sexual longings for other men. Drawing upon years of research in previously sealed records, the prize-winning historian Deborah Cohen offers a sweeping and often surprising account of how shame has changed over the last two centuries. Both a story of family secrets and of how they were revealed, this book journeys from the frontier of empire, where British adventurers made secrets that haunted their descendants for generations, to the confessional vanguard of modern-day genealogy two centuries later. It explores personal, apparently idiosyncratic, decisions: hiding an adopted daughter's origins, taking a disabled son to a garden party, talking ceaselessly (or not at all) about a homosexual uncle. In delving into the familial dynamics of shame and guilt, Family Secrets investigates 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. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Alderney Gate Public Library Adult Nonfiction 306.8509 C678f Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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