TY  - BOOK
AU  - Patton-Imani,Sandra
TI  - Queering Family Trees: Race, Reproductive Justice, and Lesbian Motherhood 
SN  - 9781479865567
AV  - HQ75.53 .P38 2021
U1  - 306.8743086643 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - New York University Press, 
KW  - Families
KW  - United States
KW  - Lesbian mothers
KW  - Race discrimination
KW  - Reproductive rights
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBT Studies / Gay Studies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Adoption
KW  - African American
KW  - Allegories
KW  - Belonging
KW  - Birth
KW  - California
KW  - Child welfare
KW  - Choice
KW  - Citizenship
KW  - Civil Rights Movement
KW  - Coalition
KW  - Colorblind
KW  - Economic stratification
KW  - Education
KW  - Enslavement
KW  - Equality
KW  - Family values
KW  - Fertility
KW  - Future of the nation
KW  - Genealogy
KW  - Hospital care
KW  - Illegal
KW  - Illegitimacy
KW  - Illegitimate
KW  - Immigration
KW  - Intersectionality
KW  - Invalid
KW  - Iowa
KW  - Kinship
KW  - Legibility
KW  - Legitimacy
KW  - Lesbians
KW  - Marriage equality
KW  - Marriage
KW  - Motherhood
KW  - Navajo
KW  - New Mexico
KW  - Orphans
KW  - Power
KW  - Pregnancy
KW  - Proposition 8
KW  - Queerness
KW  - Race
KW  - Racial blame
KW  - Redemption
KW  - Reproductive justice
KW  - Salvation
KW  - Same-sex marriage
KW  - Settler colonialism
KW  - Social institutions
KW  - Socialization
KW  - Socioeconomic status
KW  - Stratified reproduction
KW  - Transracial adoption
KW  - Tribal affiliation
KW  - Two-spirit
KW  - Welfare
KW  - White motherhood
KW  - White supremacy
KW  - gender
KW  - patriarchy
N1  - restricted access
N2  - Argues that significant barriers to family-making exist for lesbian mothers of color in the United StatesOne might be tempted, in the afterglow of Obergefell v. Hodges, to believe that the battle has been won, that gays and lesbians fought a tough fight and finally achieved equality in the United States through access to legal marriage. But that narrative tells only one version of a very complex story about family and citizenship.Queering Family Trees explores the lived experience of queer mothers in the United States, drawing on over one hundred interviews with African American, Latina, Native American, white, and Asian American lesbian mothers living in a range of socioeconomic circumstances to show how they have navigated family-making. While the legalization of same-sex marriage and adoption in 2015 has provided avenues toward equality for some couples, structural and economic barriers have meant that others-especially queer women of color who often have fewer financial resources-have not been able to access seemingly available "choices" such as second-parent adoptions, powers of attorney, and wills. Sandra Patton-Imani here argues that the virtual exclusion of lesbians of color from public narratives about LGBTQ families is crucial to maintaining the narrative that legal marriage for same-sex couples provides access to full equality as citizens. Through the lens of reproductive justice, Patton-Imani argues that the federal legalization of same-sex marriage reinforces existing structures of inequality grounded in race, gender, sexuality, and class. Queering Family Trees explores the lives of a critically erased segment of the queer population, demonstrating that the seemingly "color blind" solutions offered by marriage equality do not rectify such inequalities
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479866595
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781479866595/original
ER  -