Family Secrets Shame and Privacy in Modern Britain

What did families hide in the past and why? By 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.

About the author

Deborah Cohen is Ritzma Professor of the Humanities and Professor of History at Northwestern University. She is the author of Household Gods: The British and their Possessions and The War Come Home: Disabled Ex-Servicemen in Britain and Germany, 1914-1939.

Product details

• Authors: Deborah Cohen, M D Deborah Cohen
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 01.01.2017
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous
• EAN: 9780190673499
• ISBN: 978-0-19-067349-9
• Pages: 400
• Subjects: European History, HISTORY / Modern / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, General & world history, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Social and cultural history, Family & relationships: advice & issues, General and world history