Introduction. Vantage points: situating myself -- Vantage points: intellectual traditions and the study of domesticity -- Caring and domesticity among lesbigay families -- The work and family lives of lesbigay people -- Equality, egalitarianism, and fairness -- The organization and method of the study -- The participants -- Characteristics of the participants -- Domestic diversity -- Overview -- pt. 1. Feeding lesbigay families. The character of feeding work -- Feeding work and the creation of gender, class, ethnic, and family identities -- pt. 2. Housework in lesbigay families. The character of housework -- Managing and envisioning housework -- Variations in housework among lesbigay households -- Housework and the social production of lesbigay family -- pt. 3. Kin work among lesbigay families. Kith as family -- The lesbigay family kin keepers -- Variations in kin work patterns -- Kin work and the creation of family -- pt. 4. Consumption work in lesbigay families. The character of consumption work -- Variations in consumption work -- Sustaining lesbigay families through consumption work -- pt. 5. The division of domestic labor in lesbigay families. The egalitarian myth -- The egalitarian pattern -- The specialization pattern -- Pragmatic choices and the sense of fairness -- Conclusion. Domesticity and the political economy of lesbigay families. Family aspirations -- The political economy of constructing family -- Now you see it, now you don't: gender and domesticity -- Devalued and invisible: lesbigay domesticity -- Marriage and lesbigay domesticity: who will be bound by the ties that bind? -- What do lesbigay families need to prosper?