Hide and Speak: How to Free Ourselves from Our Secrets - Hardcover

Cherry, Kittredge

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0062501658 ISBN 13: 9780062501653

Publisher: Harpercollins, 1991

Synopsis

Examines the power that secrets hold over one, and guides readers in the process of discovery, acceptance, and appropriate disclosure

About this title

About the Author

Kittredge Cherry, the author of "Womansword: What Japanese Words Say About Women," has also written for "Newsweek" and "The Wall Street Journal." She edited "Equal Rites: Lesbian and Gay Worship, Ceremonies and Celebrations" (1995). A graduate of the University of Iowa, she studied in Japan on a Rotary International Journalism Scholarship and earned a master's degree from Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, California. She lives with her spouse Audrey Lockwood, a cat, and a Great Dane.

Reviews

Ostensibly, this book is about the impact of keeping or telling secrets on ourselves and others. However, most of the material concerns the problems facing gays and lesbians who want to "come out." Using her experience as a lesbian minister, Cherry (author of Womans word , Kodansha, dist. by Farrar, 1987) writes sincerely and gently about homosexual isues. She includes exercises designed to foster self-discovery. Aside from these exercises however, her book's potential usefulness is weakened by her philosophical rather than practical approach. Also, most of the information is not new. Readers would do better with Mary Borhek's Coming Out to Parents ( LJ 8/83) or Testimonies: A Collection of Lesbian Coming Out Stories (Alyson Pubns., 1988). For large collections of alternative literature.
- January Adams, Somerville
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harpercollins
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0062501658
• ISBN 13: 9780062501653
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1