Amigas y Amantes: Sexually Nonconforming Latinas Negotiate Family (Families in Focus)

By Katie L. Acosta.

Amigas y Amantes: Sexually Nonconforming Latinas Negotiate Family (Families in Focus)

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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 ...

ISBN(s)

0813561957, 9780813561950

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