LEADER 03847nam 22006611 450 001 9910453788203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8135-6197-3 024 7 $a10.36019/9780813561974 035 $a(CKB)2550000001159866 035 $a(EBL)1562500 035 $a(OCoLC)863824497 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001040041 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11586061 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001040041 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11000905 035 $a(PQKB)10716301 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1562500 035 $a(OCoLC)862746758 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse27681 035 $a(DE-B1597)526047 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780813561974 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1562500 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10797265 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL543071 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001159866 100 $a20130214d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAmigas y amantes $esexually nonconforming Latinas negotiate family /$fKatie L. Acosta 210 1$aNew Brunswick, New Jersey :$cRutgers University Press,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (184 p.) 225 0 $aFamilies in Focus 225 0$aFamilies in focus 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8135-6196-5 311 $a1-306-11820-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aAcknowledgments -- Introduction -- "As long as you wear a dress" : gender conformity and sexuality -- "And then the father set me free" : religion and sexuality -- Doing family from within interracial/interethnic relationships -- Parenting among families of choice -- Integrating families of choice and origin : gaining visibility through care work -- Conclusion: are you family? -- Appendices A-E -- References -- Index. 330 $aAmigas y Amantes (Friends and Lovers) explores the experiences of sexually nonconforming Latinas in the creation and maintenance of families. It is based on forty-two in-depth ethnographic interviews with women who identify as lesbian, bisexual, or queer (LBQ). Additionally, it draws from fourteen months of participant observation at LBQ Latina events that Katie L. Acosta conducted in 2007 and 2008 in a major northeast city. With this data, Acosta examines how LBQ Latinas manage loving relationships with the families who raised them, and with their partners, their children, and their friends. Acosta investigates how sexually nonconforming Latinas negotiate cultural expectations, combat compulsory heterosexuality, and reconcile tensions with their families. She offers a new way of thinking about the emotion work involved in everyday lives, which highlights the informal, sometimes invisible, labor required in preserving family ties. Acosta contends that the work LBQ Latinas take on to preserve connections with biological families, lovers, and children results in a unique way of doing family. Paying particular attention to the negotiations that LBQ Latinas undertake in an effort to maintain familial order, Amigas y Amantes explores how they understand femininity, how they negotiate their religious faiths, how they face the unique challenges of being in interracial/interethnic relationships, and how they raise their children while integrating their families of origin. 410 0$aFamilies in Focus 606 $aHispanic American lesbians 606 $aLesbian mothers 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aHispanic American lesbians. 615 0$aLesbian mothers. 676 $a306.874/308664 700 $aAcosta$b Katie L.$f1980-$01030319 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910453788203321 996 $aAmigas y amantes$92447150 997 $aUNINA