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Family Secrets
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 389

Family Secrets

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.

Family Secrets
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 334

Family Secrets

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1995
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  • Publisher: Bantam

What You Don't Know Can Hurt You- But it Can Also Lead to Self-Acceptance and Healing. Family Secrets gives you the tools you need to understand your family-and yourself- in an entirely new way. In his bestselling hooks and compelling PBS specials. John Bradshaw has transformed our understanding of how we are shaped by our families. Now join him on this fascinating journey of discovery, which starts with your life today and takes you back through the conflicts, the strengths, and the weaknesses of your parents' generation- and even your grandparents'. Using a powerful technique for exploring your family tree," you'll trace the visible and invisible patterns that have influenced you. You 11 l...

Family Secrets
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 441

Family Secrets

Painting a vivid picture of the pivotal case that broke apart a Chicago mob family, this narrative relies on court transcripts, police records, interviews, and notes to recreate the story as it unfolded in a 2007 courtroom.

Family Secrets
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 258

Family Secrets

Malcom’s parents’ tragic story is riveting -- his father killed his mother’s lover and, unique in British legal history, was acquitted. But he later discovers his “real” father was the Italian ambassador.

Family Secrets
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 202

Family Secrets

A novel about three generations of strongly independent female characters, set in Ireland. Readership level: 12+.

Family Secrets
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 396

Family Secrets

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-01-09
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  • Publisher: Penguin UK

A Sunday Telegraph and Times Higher Education 'Book of the Week', Deborah Cohen's Family Secrets is a gripping book about what families - Victorian and modern - try to hide, and why. In an Edinburgh town house, a genteel maiden lady frets with her brother over their niece's downy upper lip. Would the darkening shadow betray the girl's Eurasian heritage? 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 ...

Family Secrets
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 196

Family Secrets

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2002-11-17
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  • Publisher: Verso

A new edition with a new introduction and an additional chapter.

Family Secrets
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 148

Family Secrets

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1995
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Annette Kuhn's work as a theorist of culture has won her a wide reputation for dissecting film and other images in books such as Women's Pictures and The Power of the Image. In Family Secrets, she turns her attention to the deconstruction of pictures closer to home—photographs from her own childhood and images from her shared ethnographic past—to trace a trajectory from personal to collective acts of memory.

Family Secrets
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 265

Family Secrets

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2003-02-20
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  • Publisher: Dundurn

A chance encounter led Catherine Slaney to investigate her family genealogy and revealed her great-grandfather, Dr. A.R. Abbott, Canada's first African-Canadian doctor.

And Now I Spill the Family Secrets
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 291

And Now I Spill the Family Secrets

Named one of Publishers Weekly’s Best of 2021 List in Comics. 2021 Top of the List Graphic Novel Pick In the spirit of Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home and Roz Chast’s Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, Margaret Kimball’s AND NOW I SPILL THE FAMILY SECRETS begins in the aftermath of a tragedy. In 1988, when Kimball is only four years old, her mother attempts suicide on Mother’s Day—and this becomes one of many things Kimball’s family never speaks about. As she searches for answers nearly thirty years later, Kimball embarks on a thrilling visual journey into the secrets her family has kept for decades. Using old diary entries, hospital records, home videos, and other archi...