Families We Lose

• Utgivningsdatum: 2026-08-18
• Mått: 152 x 229 x undefined mm
• Vikt: 422 g
• Format: Inbunden
• Språk: Engelska
• Antal sidor: 184
• Förlag: New York University Press
• ISBN: 9781479838783

• Sociologi
• Barnpsykologi och utvecklingspsykologi
• Relationer
• HBTQ+

Rin Reczek is Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Center for Aging Families at The Ohio State University. She is the co-author of Families We Keep: LGBTQ People and Their Enduring Bonds with Parents and the co-editor of Marriage and Health: The Well-Being of Same-Sex Couples.

"Sobering but illuminating... elegant and objective." - Foreword Reviews "Stories about family estrangement are proliferating, but most of these are told by the parents and grandparents who get left behind. With Families We Lose, finally we hear from those who are doing the leaving. Best of all, this important book helps to demystify the phenomenon, beyond too-simple explanations of unhappy people lured to estrange from others by therapy or social media. Instead, Rin Reczek points out that what we are seeing is a collision of two cultural ideals of what counts as family, and what we ought to expect from family members. With poignant accounts from people who insist upon a new model of democratized kinship, Reczek counters popular concern about why those who estrange themselves 'don't value family.' Instead, as this book demonstrates, they value family so much, they are willing to invent new relationships to pursue a better version of it. Families We Lose goes beyond the headlines to add some important voices missing from the current conversation, and to give us some vital analytical tools to make sense of them." - Allison Pugh, author of The Last Human Job: The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World "Reczek's clearly written and accessible book does what the best sociology does: takes things that we think of as individual or interpersonal and reveals to us their social and cultural causes. In this timely work, Reczek counters panicky public discourse about family estrangement as a trendy moral failing of 'kids these days' and instead asks us to consider how different ideologies of family clash to produce the phenomenon of estrangement. Rooted in people's first-hand experiences, this book sheds much-needed sociological light into the so-called private world of family trauma, disagreement, and grief, as well as belonging and joy. A must-read for scholars of family, culture, gender and sexuality, intersectionality, and interpersonal violence." - Paige Sweet, author of The Politics of Surviving: How Women Navigate Domestic Violence and Its Aftermath  "This book is a major contribution to the study of family, culture, gender, sexuality, and social change. Reczek offers an important new way of understanding the democratization of intimacy. Reczek's work on family estrangement is path-breaking." - Amy L. Stone, author of Gay Rights at the Ballot Box

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