Family and work in everyday ethnography

"Family and Work in Everyday Ethnography exposes the intimate relationship between ethnographers as both family members and researchers. The contributors to this exciting volume question and problematize the "artificial divide" between work and family that continues to permeate writing on ethnographic field work as social scientists try to juggle research and family tensions while "on the job." Essays relate experiences that mirror work-family dilemmas that all employed parents face, and show how personal experiences deeply affect social scientists' home life and their studies. Bringing together voices of various family members-pregnant women, mothers, fathers, and children-Family and Work in Everyday Ethnography demonstrates how the mixture of work and family in this particular occupation has raised questions-both practical and theoretical-that relate to race, class, and gender."--Publisher's description

Work and home (im)balance: finding synergy through ethnographic fieldwork / Joanna Dreby and Tamara Mose Brown -- Theorizing the field: beyond blurred boundaries and into the thick of things / Barbara Katz Rothman -- Sociological pregnancy: on gestating research, writing, and offspring / Erynn Masi de Casanova -- Emerging breasts, bellies, and bodies of knowledge: how pregnancy and breastfeeding matter in fieldwork / Jennifer A. Reich -- The intimate ties between work and home / Joanna Dreby -- Motherhood and transformation in the field: reflections on positionality, meaning, and trust / Leah Schmalzbauer -- Parents and children, research and family, life and loss: living the questions of doing ethnography / Chris Bobel -- Passing as a parent: playground fieldwork in the shadow of the World Trade Center / Gregory Smithsimon -- Making up for lost time: my son, my fieldwork, my life / Randol Contreras -- Kids change everything: how becoming a dad transformed my fieldwork (and findings) / Charles Aiden Downy -- Fourteen months, four countries, and three kids: tales from the field / Tanya Golash-Boza with Raymi Boza, Soraya Boza, and Tatiana Boza -- Reflections on ethnographic childho…