Queering Family Trees: Race, Reproductive Justice, and Lesbian Motherhood

by Sandra Patton-Imani

Book Overview

Argues that significant barriers to family-making exist for lesbian mothers of color in the United States

One 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479814865
• ISBN13: 9781479814862
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.8"