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Margaret K. Nelson, "Keeping Family Secrets: Shame and Silence in Memoirs from the 1950s" (NYU Press, 2022)

New Books in Sociology

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Exploring the impact of family secrets, this chapter delves into why families keep secrets, their effects on individuals, and how families interact and process such information. The author also discusses their motivation for writing the book and their use of memoirs as a tool for studying family secrets.

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