| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 296 pages) |
| Contents |
Women working in the field : perspectives from STEM and beyond / Kelly Ward, Lisa Wolf-Wendel, and Lindsey Marco -- Fieldwork and parenting in archaeology / Stacey L. Camp -- Malaria and spider-man : conducting ethnographic research in Niger with a three-year-old / Kelley Sams -- Birthing in the field / Lydia Zacher Dixon -- Looking at the field from afar and bringing it closer to home / Cecilia Vindrola-Padros -- Parenting through the field : criminal justice ethnography, cinematography, and field photography in Africa with our babies / Bahiyyah Miallah Muhammad and Muntaquim Muhammad -- Privilege, (in)competence, and worth : conflicting emotions of the student-mom and her support community / Grace Karram Stephenson, John Stephenson, and Joanne Florence Karram -- Fathering in support of fieldwork : lactation and bourgeois feminism (and more privileged white people's problems) / Brian C. Wolf -- Lactating in the autopsy room : mothering from the field when the field is a morgue and your child is a nursing infant / Mélanie-Angela Neuilly -- Fieldwork adventures on the mommy track / Anne Hardgrove -- Mommy in the field : raising children and breeding plants / Kimberly Garland Campbell -- Entangled knowledge : on the labor of mothering and anthropological fieldwork / Sarah Kelman -- "Manman, poukisa y'ap rele m blan?" (Mama, why are they calling me a white?) : research and mothering in Haiti / Marylynn Steckley -- Birthing the social scientist as mother / Deirdre Guthrie -- Two notes on bringing children other than your own in the field / Aprille Ericsson, Dawn Ericsson Provine, Arielle Ericsson White, Mikae Provine, Pierre Ericsson, Bahiyyah Miallah Muhammad, and Mélanie-Angela Heuilly -- "I don't know how you do it" : countering a narrative that presumes that researching and mothering are incompatible / Ryanne Pilgeram -- Ethnographic research in Africa : the hidden costs of conducting fieldwork for mothers with children / Bahiyyah Miallah Muhammad |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Women college teachers.
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Women social scientists.
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Women scientists.
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Research -- Methodology.
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Social sciences -- Fieldwork.
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Science -- Fieldwork
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Working mothers.
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Work and family.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Research -- Methodology
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Social sciences -- Fieldwork
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Women college teachers
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Women scientists
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Women social scientists
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Work and family
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Working mothers
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Muhammad, Bahiyyah Miallah, 1980- editor.
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Neuilly, Melanie-Angela, 1977- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781978800601 |
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1978800606 |
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