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Keeping Family Secrets: Shame and Silence in Memoirs from the 1950s
By Nelson, Margaret K.
- ISBN
- 9781479815623
- Publisher
- NYU
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Reviewed on August 1, 2022 | Social Sciences
Secrets have a way of coming out, for better or worse. Sociologist Nelson (Like Family) analyzes how secret-keeping affected family life in the 1950s. Even though the chapters are organized by topics, such as institutionalized siblings, same-sex desires, and unmarried mothers, the book is not as interested in what the secrets were but rather the way they created cracks in the famili...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
