title: Negotiating Religiosity and Sexual Identity Among Hispanic Lesbian Mothers.
abstract: Hispanic lesbian mothers face bicultural tensions that stigmatize their roles as mothers. Religion could produce heightened conflict given their potential incompatibility with the role of a "good mother." In particular, there is a potential for conflict between the definition of a "good mother" set forth in Catholicism and the sexual orientation of Hispanic lesbians. I conducted semistructured in-depth interviews to examine how Hispanic lesbian mothers negotiate their Catholic religious identity with aspects of their sexual identity. More specifically, I examined the strategies that Hispanic lesbian mothers use to reconcile or navigate perceived conflict between their roles as a Catholic and as a lesbian. The research questions to be answered were: How do Hispanic lesbian mothers negotiate a Catholic religious and a sexual identity? How do Hispanic lesbian mothers create and maintain a religious narrative? How do Hispanic lesbian mothers redefine religion and spirituality?
authors.affiliation: a Department of Sociology , Rice University , Houston , Texas , USA.
authors.forename: Zelma
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Tuthill
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002410:Catholicism; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006630:Hispanic or Latino; D018452:Homosexuality, Female / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology*; D017008:Negotiating; D000072339:Sexual and Gender Minorities / Q000523:psychology*; D029181:Spirituality
keywords: Catholicism; Hispanic lesbians; lesbian mothers; religiosity; spirituality