Reflexivity and Voice

Rosanna Hertz is the 1919 Reunion Professor of Sociology and Women’s and Gender Studies at Wellesley College. She is the author of Single By Chance, Mothers By Choice: How Women are Choosing Parenthood Without Marriage and Creating the New American Family (Oxford Press, 2008). She is also the author or co-author of five edited collections which focus on the use of qualitative methods including Open to Disruption: Time and Craft in the Practice of Slow Sociology (Vanderbilt University, 2015) with Anita Ilta Garey and Margaret K. Nelson.

• Part A Reflexivity: who am I? - the need for a variety of selves in field, Shulamit Reinharz; parents as researchers, Patricia A. Adler and Peter Adler; ethnography and anxiety - fieldwork and reflexivity in the vortex of the US-Cuba relations, Raymond A. Michalowski; a feminist revisiting of the insider/outsider debate - the "outsider phenomenon" in rural Iowa, Nancy A. Naples; gender and indigenous research in the Middle East - negotiating self-dynamics in the field, Hale C. Bolak; do you really know how they make love? - the limits on intimacy with ethnographic informants, Tamar El-Or. Part B Voice: the myth of silent authorship - self, substance and style in ethnographic writing, Kathy Charmaz and Richard G. Mitchell; personal writing in social science - issues of production and interpretation, Marjorie L. DeVault; reconsidering table talk - critical thoughts on the relationship between sociology, autobiography and self-indulgence, Eric Mykhalowskiy; the case of mistaken identity - problems in representing women on the right, Faye Ginsberg; gender and voice, signature and audience in North Indian lyric traditions, Geeta Patel.