ISBN: 9780190673499

Paperback, [PU: Oxford University Press, USA], We live today in a culture of full disclosure, where tell-all memoirs top the best-seller lists, transparency is lauded, and privacy seems i… More...

Paperback, [PU: Oxford University Press, USA], 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 basis for comparing different sorts of social stigma. She takes readers inside an Edinburgh town house, where a genteel maiden frets with her brother over their niece's downy upper lip, a darkening shadow that might betray the girl's Eurasian heritage; to a Liverpool railway platform, where a heartbroken mother hands over her eight-year old illegitimate son for adoption; to a town in the Cotswolds, where a queer vicar brings to his bank vault a diary--sewed up in calico, wrapped in parchment--that chronicles his sexual longings. Cohen explores what families in the past chose to keep secret and why. She excavates the tangled history of privacy and secrecy to explain why privacy is now viewed as a hallowed right while secrets are condemned as destructive. In delving into the dynamics of shame and guilt, Family Secrets explores 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. Written with compassion and keen insight, this is a bold new argument about the sea-changes that took place behind closed doors., British & Irish History<

2009, ISBN: 9780190673499

Paperback, Hardcover

New York, NY: Hyperion Books, 2009. First edition. First Edition [stated]. Hardcover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. Inscribed on t-p. Small, illustrated business … More...

New York, NY: Hyperion Books, 2009. First edition. First Edition [stated]. Hardcover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. Inscribed on t-p. Small, illustrated business card sized publisher's ephemera laid in.. Glued binding. Paper over boards. x, [2]401, [1] p. Illustrations, black & white, Frontispiece. Author's Note. Notes. Index. From the author's website: "Steve Luxenberg, an associate editor at The Washington Post and author of the award-winning Annie s Ghosts: A Journey Into a Family Secret, has worked for more than 30 years as a newspaper editor and reporter. Steve s journalistic career began at The Baltimore Sun, where he worked for 11 years. He joined The Post in 1985 as deputy editor of the investigative/special projects staff, headed by assistant managing editor Bob Woodward. In 1991, Steve succeeded Woodward as head of the investigative staff. Post reporters working with Steve have won several major reporting awards, including two Pulitzer Prizes for explanatory journalism. From 1996 to 2006, Steve was the editor of The Post s Sunday Outlook section, which publishes original reporting and provocative commentary on a broad spectrum of political, historical and cultural issues.", Hyperion Books, 2009, 3, Paperback / softback. New. Traces the history of Luis de Carvajal the Younger and his family in Spain, their migration to the New World, their religious practices, and their adventures in New Spain until one by one they were put to flight or indicted by the Inquisition., 6, Paperback / softback. New., 6<

ISBN: 9780190673499

Paperback

New York, NY : HarperFlamingo, 1998., 1998. Fine. 1st edition, 4th printing ; 758 pp. ; 25 cm. ; ISBN: 0060168609 ; LCCN: 97-22163 ; OCLC: 37024178 ; LC: PS3552.A49; Dewey: 813/.54 ; "A… More...

New York, NY : HarperFlamingo, 1998., 1998. Fine. 1st edition, 4th printing ; 758 pp. ; 25 cm. ; ISBN: 0060168609 ; LCCN: 97-22163 ; OCLC: 37024178 ; LC: PS3552.A49; Dewey: 813/.54 ; "A novel on John Brown, the slavery abolitionist, narrated by one of his 20 children. The narrator is his son Owen, who fought at his father's side and he tells the story in a series of letters to a biographer. Owen describes his father as a loving family man and provides insight into Brown's motives for becoming an abolitionist, including business failures." ; "In vain Thou strugglest to get free, I never will unloose my hold ; Art Thou the man that died for me? The secret of Thy love unfold : Wrestling, I will not let Thee go Till I Thy name, Thy nature know" ; white and grey cloth with gold lettering in photographic dustjacket ; FINE/FINE, New York, NY : HarperFlamingo, 1998., 1998, 5, Paperback. New. Brand New., 6<

2017, ISBN: 9780190673499

Oxford University Press, 2017. Paperback. New. 6.1 x 9.1 cm., Oxford University Press, 2017, 6