Margaret K. Nelson is A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Sociology Emerita at Middlebury College. Most recently she is the author of Like Family: Narratives of Fictive Kinship and coauthor, with Emily K. Abel, of Limited Choices: Mable Jones, a Black Children's Nurse in a Northern White Household.
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All families have secrets but the facts requiring secrecy change with time. Nowadays a lesbian partnership, a 'bastard' son, or a criminal grandfather might be of little or no consequence but could have unraveled a family at an earlier moment in history. ... SEE MORE