Citation

Mann B. Hypatia 2007; 22(1): 149-165.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, Indiana University Press)

DOI

10.1111/j.1527-2001.2007.tb01154.x

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

For many of us, entry into motherhood involves an ambiguous visibility and intelligibility, where our acceptance into mainstream spaces as mothers entails a loss of lesbian difference. Mann explores this loss using the work of two philosophers of lesbian difference, Monique Wittig and Judith Butler. She argues that the figure of the lesbian mother is deployed on a broad cultural scale to reinvigorate and renaturaUze the myth of the happy, natural, heterosexual mother.