Invisible Families: Gay Identities, Relationships, and Motherhood Among Black Women"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 |
Contents
Black Women | 21 |
Gender Presentation in Black Lesbian Communities | 65 |
SelfUnderstandings | 92 |
Lesbian Motherhood and Discourses of Respectability | 113 |
Family Life and Gendered Relations between Women | 153 |
Openly Gay Families and the Negotiation of Black | 180 |
Intersections Extensions and Implications | 215 |
A Roadmap for the Study of Marginalized | 223 |
Selected Questions from Invisible | 239 |
Questions from InDepth Interview | 249 |
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