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Amigas y Amantes (Friends and Lovers) explores the experiences of sexually nonconforming Latinas in the creation and maintenance of families. It is based on forty-two in-depth ethnographic interviews with women who identify as lesbian, bisexual, or queer (LBQ). Additionally, it draws from fourteen months of participant observation at LBQ Latina events that Katie L. Acosta conducted in 2007 and 2008 in a major northeast city. With this data, Acosta examines how LBQ Latinas manage loving relationships with the families who raised them, and with their partners, their children, and their friends. Acosta investigates how sexually nonconforming Latinas negotiate cultural expectations, combat compulsory heterosexuality, and reconcile tensions with their families. She offers a new way of thinking about the emotion work involved in everyday lives, which highlights the informal, sometimes invisible, labor required in preserving family ties. Acosta contends that the work LBQ Latinas take on to preserve connections with biological families, lovers, and children results in a unique way of doing family. Paying particular attention to the negotiations that LBQ Latinas undertake in an effort to maintain familial order, Amigas y Amantes explores how they understand femininity, how they negotiate their religious faiths, how they face the unique challenges of being in interracial/interethnic relationships, and how they raise their children while integrating their families of origin.

Hispanic American lesbians. --- Lesbian mothers. --- Lesbian parents --- Mothers --- Lesbians, Hispanic American --- Lesbians --- lesbian, bisexual and queer Latina family relationships.

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"Fixing Gender uses psychoanalysis to explore the theoretical implications for the gendering of the human subject that arise from the situation of lesbians raising children from birth. In the face of the powerful evidence of the ways gender operates, and in the deep structural ways the logic of gender perpetuates, both made visible by psychoanalysis, this book asks: Is gender always fixed? Can the system which is produced by, and which produces, gender be altered? Can gender be fixed? The work begins by sketching the implications of gender as elucidated by feminist thinkers in general and feminist psychoanalytic thinkers in particular. Moving to Freud's theory of the subject, the work examines the logic of the Oedipus complex, and from there it looks at what feminist object relations theorists have done with and to the logic of the Oedipus complex. The book then moves to the literature on lesbian family functioning; and finally the work ends with a radical interrogation into the possibilities enabled by paying attention to form, and highlighting its constitutive possibilities."--Provided by publisher.

Lesbian mothers. --- Gender identity. --- Sex (Psychology) --- Oedipus complex. --- Edipus complex --- Complexes (Psychology) --- Electra complex --- Mothers and sons --- Parent and child --- Psychoanalysis --- Psychology, Pathological --- Psychology, Sexual --- Sex --- Sexual behavior, Psychology of --- Sexual psychology --- Sensuality --- Sex identity (Gender identity) --- Sexual identity (Gender identity) --- Identity (Psychology) --- Queer theory --- Lesbian parents --- Mothers --- Psychological aspects --- Gender dysphoria

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An in-depth study of lesbian, bi, and queer women's experiences of thinking about and trying to become a parent, Beyond Expectation draws on eighty-two narrative interviews conducted during the late 1990s in British Columbia.

Lesbian mothers --- Lesbians --- Reproductive technology --- Motherhood --- Female gays --- Female homosexuals --- Gay females --- Gay women --- Gayelles --- Gays, Female --- Homosexuals, Female --- Lesbian women --- Sapphists --- Women, Gay --- Women homosexuals --- Gays --- Women --- Lesbian parents --- Mothers --- Maternity --- Parenthood --- ART (Assisted reproductive technology) --- Assisted reproduction --- Assisted reproductive technology --- Reproduction --- Reproductive techniques --- Biotechnology --- Family relationships --- Social conditions. --- Health and hygiene --- Political aspects --- Technological innovations --- Canada. --- Canada (Province) --- Canadae --- Ceanada --- Chanada --- Chanadey --- Dominio del Canadá --- Dominion of Canada --- Jianada --- Kʻaenada --- Kaineḍā --- Kanada --- Ḳanadah --- Kanadaja --- Kanadas --- Ḳanade --- Kanado --- Kanakā --- Province of Canada --- Republica de Canadá --- Yn Chanadey

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Changing Family Values offers a comprehensive introduction to contemporary debates and new research surrounding the family. It explores how we define traditional family values and how these values are perceived as being underthreat in contemporary society. Ranging across politics, social policy, law and sociology, the contributors focus on the diverse realities of contemporary family life. Issues covered include: * the recent backlash against single mothers * lesbian and gay families and the law * men's changing roles within the family * the future of the nuclear family. This book is ideal for courses covering the family, a central topic in sociology and women's studies.

Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Eenoudergezin --- Familie --- Families --- Famille --- Famille -- Aspects sociaux --- Famille et travail --- Famille monoparentale --- Familles --- Family --- Family -- Social aspects --- Family -- Social conditions --- Family and state --- Family and work --- Family life --- Family policy --- Family structure --- Feminism--Philosophy --- Feminist sociology --- Feminist theory --- Feministische theorie --- Gezin --- Gezin -- Sociale aspecten --- Gezin en werk --- Gezinsbeleid --- Gezinspolitiek --- One-parent family --- Parents without partners --- Politiek [Gezins] --- Politique familiale --- Single-parent family --- State and family --- Structure [Family ] --- Theory of feminism --- Théorie féministe --- Work and family --- Gay fathers --- Lesbian mothers --- Fathers --- Family relationships --- psychology --- -Feminist theory --- -Lesbian mothers --- -Single-parent families --- #PBIB:2000.1 --- Families and work --- Dual-career families --- Work-life balance --- One-parent families --- Lesbian parents --- Gay parents --- Mothers --- Feminism --- Feminist philosophy --- Dads --- Men --- Parents --- Househusbands --- Families and state --- State and families --- Public welfare --- Social security --- Social policy --- Relationships, Family --- Structure, Family --- Social institutions --- Birth order --- Domestic relations --- Home --- Households --- Kinship --- Marriage --- Matriarchy --- Parenthood --- Patriarchy --- Psychology --- Philosophy --- Government policy --- Social aspects --- Social conditions --- Families. --- Family policy. --- Feminist theory. --- Single-parent families. --- Work and family. --- Psychology. --- Family relationships. --- Single-parent families --- Sociology & Social History --- Social Sciences --- Family & Marriage --- Gay fathers - Family relationships --- Lesbian mothers - Family relationships --- Fathers - psychology