Waiting in the Wings: Portrait of a Queer Motherhood
At age 40, Chicana writer and activist Cherrie  Moraga decided she wanted to have a child.Waiting in the Wingscomprises diary entries made during her pregnancy and the first  difficult years of her son's life, as well as retrospective essays on  motherhood, partnership, men and woman, and families. Moraga's writing  is a rich, fluid mix of English and Spanish that explores the  personal, social, and spiritual consequences of lesbian  motherhood.