Invisible families : gay identities, relationships, and motherhood among Black women / Mignon R. Moore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moore, Mignon R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American lesbians.

African American lesbians--Identity.

Same-sex marriage--United States.

Same-sex marriage.

Gay rights--United States.

Gay rights.

Puerto Rican lesbians--Identity.

Puerto Rican lesbians.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (322 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Mignon R. Moore brings to light the family life of a group that has been largely invisible-gay women of color-in a book that challenges long-standing ideas about racial identity, family formation, and motherhood. Drawing from interviews and surveys of one hundred black gay women in New York City, Invisible Families explores the ways that race and class have influenced how these women understand their sexual orientation, find partners, and form families. In particular, the study looks at the ways in which the past experiences of women who came of age in the 1960's and 1970's shape their thinking, and have structured their lives in communities that are not always accepting of their openly gay status. Overturning generalizations about lesbian families derived largely from research focused on white, middle-class feminists, Invisible Families reveals experiences within black American and Caribbean communities as it asks how people with multiple stigmatized identities imagine and construct an individual and collective sense of self.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613278418

9781283278416

1283278413

9780520950153

0520950151

OCLC:

745865838