Family and Work in Everyday Ethnography

Tamara Mose Brown is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Program Director of Caribbean Studies at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. She is author of Raising Brooklyn: Nannies, Childcare, and Caribbeans Creating Community. Joanna Dreby is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University at Albany, State University of New York. She is author of Divided by Borders: Mexican Migrants and their Children.

• Acknowledgments   I Parenting and Fieldwork: Introduction 1. Work and Home (Im)Balance: Finding Synergy through Ethnographic Fieldwork • Joanna Dreby and Tamara Mose Brown 2. Theorizing the Field: Beyond Blurred Boundaries and into the Thick of Things • Barbara Katz Rothman   II Experiences of the Expecting 3. Sociological Pregnancy: On Gestating Research, Writing, and Offspring • Erynn Masi de Casanova 4. Emerging Breasts, Bellies, and Bodies of Knowledge: How Pregnancy and Breastfeeding Matter in Fieldwork • Jennifer A. Reich   III Managing Mothers 5. The Intimate Ties between Work and Home • Joanna Dreby 6. Motherhood and Transformation in the Field: Reflections on Positionality, Meaning, and Trust • Leah Schmalzbauer 7. Parents and Children, Research and Family, Life and Loss: Living the Questions of Doing Ethnography • Chris Bobel   IV Tentative Fathering 8. Passing as a Parent: Playground Fieldwork in the Shadow of the World Trade Center • Gregory Smithsimon 9. Making Up for Lost Time: My Son, My Fieldwork, My Life • Randol Contreras 10. Kids Change Everything: How Becoming a Dad Transformed My Fieldwork (and Findings) • Charles Aiden Downy   V Challenging Children  11. Fourteen Months, Four Countries, and Three Kids: Tales from the Field • Tanya Golash-Boza with Raymi Boza, Soraya Boza, and Tatiana Boza 12. Reflections on Ethnographic Childhoods • Steven J. Gold 13. "Just Don't Take Notes at Any of My Games or Do Anything Weird": Ethnography and Mothering across Adolescence • Sherri Grasmuck   Contributors Index

"Even though the stories presented in this book revolve around ethnographic research, quantitative and qualitative researchers alike will be able to relate to the discussion of work and family balance. Covering issues from the visibility of the pregnant body when in the field, to bringing children to your study, to how a researcher copes with continuing their research in the face of tragedy, this book will keep the reader engaged through its narratives and reflections on the topic of balancing work and family in research... Researchers across disciplines and methods in the social sciences will find this book an interesting reflection on their own work and family balance in their research." - Contemporary Sociology