The elephant in the room silence and denial in everyday life /
The fable of the Emperor's New Clothes is a classic example of a conspiracy of silence, a situation where everyone refuses to acknowledge an obvious truth. But the denial of social realities -- whether incest, alcoholism, corruption, or even genocide -- is no fairy tale. In this book, the autho...
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2006.
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Preface
- Chapter 1. A conspiracy of silence
- Chapter 2. The rules of denial
- Chapter 3. The politics of denial
- Chapter 4. The social structure of denial
- Chapter 5. Breaking the silence
- Chapter 6. Some things are better left unsaid
- Chapter 7. The trouble with elephants
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Author index
- Subject index.