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Zusatztext “Provides an exemplary model for future research. . . . Necessary reading for scholars and students interested in family studies, LGBT studies, and race-class-gender studies.” Informationen zum Autor Mignon R. Moore is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California! Los Angeles. Klappentext "Mignon Moore's title says it all: Invisible Families. Scholarship on lesbian and gay issues has been slow to recognize the importance of children and family among those in same-sex relationships and has paid scant attention to racial minorities; nor have students of African American life given much attention to Black lesbians and gay men. We are left with the unfortunate impression! to paraphrase the authors of But Some of Us Are Brave! that all the lesbians and gays are White and all the Blacks are heterosexual. This book stands as a significant corrective to these multiple myopias! offering a nuanced account of the kinds of pressures Black women raising children with female partners encounter! and revealing the creativity and resilience they bring to the struggle." --Ellen Lewin! University of Iowa! author of Gay Fatherhood: Narratives of Family and Citizenship in America. " Invisible Families shakes up longstanding theoretical conceptualizations of racial identity! family formation! and motherhood! contesting basic assumptions about black families. Tightly conceptualized and highly engaging." - Kerry Ann Rockquemore! author of Raising Biracial Children Zusammenfassung Challenges long-standing ideas about racial identity, family formation, and motherhood of gay women of color. Drawing from interviews and surveys of one hundred black gay women in New York City, this book explores the ways that race and class have influenced how these women understand their sexual orientation, find partners, and form families. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction: Two Sides of the Same Coin: Revising Analyses of Lesbian Sexuality and Family Formation through the Study of Black Women 1. Coming into the Life: Entrance into Gay Sexuality for Black Women 2. Gender Presentation in Black Lesbian Communities 3. Marginalized Social Identities: Self-Understandings and Group Membership 4. Lesbian Motherhood and Discourses of Respectability 5. Family Life and Gendered Relations between Women 6. Openly Gay Families and the Negotiation of Black Community and Religious Life Conclusion: Intersections! Extensions! and Implications Appendix A: A Roadmap for the Study of Marginalized and Invisible Populations Appendix B: Selected Questions from Invisible Families Survey Appendix C: Questions from In-Depth Interview on Self-Definitions of Sexuality Notes References Index ...
