Invisible Families: Gay Identities, Relationships, and Motherhood Among Black Women

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 1960s and 1970s 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.

Author: Mignon Moore
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 10/17/2011
Pages: 318
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.90w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9780520269521
ISBN10: 0520269527
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | LGBTQ+ Studies | Gay Studies
- Social Science | Sociology | Marriage & Family
- Social Science | Gender Studies

About the Author
Mignon R. Moore is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles.