Another Mother

by Ruthann Robson

Angie (Evangelina) Evans - prominent attorney specializing in lesbian legal issues, partner in a committed relationship, mother to an adopted daughter - seems to many to have the best of all worlds. To herself, however, she is caught amid the contradictions that make up her life. Devoted to her own daughter, passionately involved in her legal work, and committed to her lover, Angie, nevertheless, has a difficult relationship with her own mother, must constantly struggle for support within her law group to continue her work, and is involved in a seemingly pointless affair with a legal intern. As she fights to make sense of the labels that have been applied to her - mother, daughter, lover, lesbian - Angie finds her crisis of identity boiling over.

Genres: Fiction

259 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 1995

About the author

Ruthann Robson is Professor of Law & University Distinguished Professor. She is the author of Dressing Constitutionally: Hierarchy, Sexuality, and Democracy (2013), as well as the books Sappho Goes to Law School (1998); Gay Men, Lesbians, and the Law (1996); and Lesbian (Out)Law: Survival Under the Rule of Law (1992), and the editor of the three volume set, International Library of Essays in Sexuality & Law (2011). She is a frequent commentator on constitutional and sexuality issues and the co-editor of the Constitutional Law Professors Blog. She is one of the 26 professors selected for inclusion in What the Best Law Teachers Do (Harvard University Press, 2013).

Reviews

[Joanna Eleftheriou · Rating 4 out of 5]

I loved the prose here, and finally found a couple that was relateable! I'm not sure the ending is as strong as it could have been, though -- I want a sequel! Angie's story is not done!