Mothering without a compass (Record no. 192104)

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082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 306.874/3
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME
Personal name Thompson, Becky W.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Mothering without a compass
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication Minneapolis :
Name of publisher University of Minnesota Press,
Year of publication c2000.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Number of Pages 167 p.
520 1# - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc "In 1997, Becky Thompson began parenting nine-year-old Adrian at the request of his mother, changing both of their lives forever. Mothering without a Compass is the story of Thompson's first year as the white lesbian "sudden-mother" of an African American boy. From the everyday yet sometimes overwhelming tasks of finding Adrian a school and debating the significance of action figures, to unexpected discussions about who pays whom at the sperm bank and the more complicated matters of racism, sexuality, nontraditional families, open adoption, love, and loss, Thompson gives us an absorbing and often humorous account of her experience with antiracist, multicultural parenting." "Mothering without a Compass relates a lesbian parent's struggle to help her child grow up and describes the complexities facing children who have more than one family."--BOOK JACKET.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term Lesbian mothers
Topical Term Women, White
Topical Term African American young men
Topical Term Children of gay parents
Topical Term Mothers and sons
856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Uniform Resource Identifier http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10151297

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