UID:
almafu_9959739744402883
Format:
1 online resource (ix, 296 pages)
ISBN:
1-9788-0060-6
Content:
The heated national conversation about gender equality and women in the workforce is something that women in academia have been concerned with and writing about for at least a decade. Overall, the conversation has focused on identifying how women in general and mothers in particular fair in the academy as a whole, as well as offering tips on how to maximize success. Aside from a long-standing field-specific debate in anthropology, rare are the volumes focusing on the particulars of motherhood's impacts on how scientific research is conducted, particularly when it comes to field research. Mothering from the Field offers both a mosaic of perspectives from current women scientists' experiences of conducting field research across a variety of sub-disciplines while raising children, and an analytical framework to understand how we can redefine methodological and theoretical contributions based on mothers' experiences in order not just to promote healthier, more inclusive, nurturing, and supportive environments in physical, life, and social sciences, but also to revolutionize how we conceptualize research.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Introduction /
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Part I. Women and Mothers Doing Field Research: What Do We Know? --
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Introduction /
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1. Women Working in the Field: Perspectives from STEM and Beyond /
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2. Fieldwork and Parenting in Archaeology /
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Part II. The Truth Is, It Will Be Hard: The Difficulties of Doing Field Research for Mothers --
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Introduction /
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3. Malaria and Spider- Man: Conducting Ethnographic Research in Niger with a Three- Year- Old /
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4. Birthing in the Field /
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5. Looking at the Field from Afar and Bringing It Closer to Home /
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Part III. Teamwork Makes the Dream Work: The Importance of Networks and Family Support --
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Introduction /
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6. Parenting through the Field: Criminal Justice Ethnography, Cinematography, and Field Photography in Africa with Our Babies /
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7. Privilege, (In)Competence, and Worth: Conflicting Emotions of the Student- Mom and Her Support Community /
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8. Fathering in Support of Fieldwork: Lactation and Bourgeois Feminism (and More Privileged White People's Problems) /
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Part IV. This Too Shall Pass: Field Research before, during, and after Motherhood --
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Introduction /
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9. Lactating in the Autopsy Room: Mothering from the Field When the Field Is a Morgue and Your Child Is a Nursing Infant /
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10. Fieldwork Adventures on the Mommy Track /
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11. Mommy in the Field: Raising Children and Breeding Plants /
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Part V. What Is the Field, Anyway? Mothers Redefining Field Methodologies --
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Introduction /
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12. Entangled Knowledge: On the Labor of Mothering and Anthropological Fieldwork /
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13. "Manman, Poukisa Y'ap Rele M Blan?" (Mama, Why Are They Calling Me a White?): Research and Mothering in Haiti /
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14. Birthing the Social Scientist as Mother /
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15. Two Notes on Bringing Children Other Than Your Own in the Field /
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Part VI. Practical Solutions to Complex Problems: Because Mothers Can Do Anything! --
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Introduction /
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16. "I Don't Know How You Do It!": Countering a Narrative that Presumes that Researching and Mothering Are Incompatible /
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17. Ethnographic Research in Africa: The Hidden Costs of Conducting Fieldwork for Mothers with Children /
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Conclusion /
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Acknowledgments --
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Notes on Contributors --
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Index
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-9788-0057-6
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-9788-0056-8
Language:
English
DOI:
10.36019/9781978800601
