Reflexivity and Voice / Edition 1

by Rosanna Hertz

Overview

Qualitative researchers are increasingly concerned with issues relating to writing up their studies and creating a new ethnography where the author's voice, as well as those of their participants, are more fully realized for the reader. This volume, a significant expansion of a special issue of the journal Qualitative Sociology, presents an array of contemporary ethnographers grappling with the problematics and new conventions of ethnographic writing.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761903840
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	06/17/1997
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.76(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

	Introduction: Reflexivity and Voice	vii
Part I	Reflexivity
1.	Who Am I? The Need for a Variety of Selves in the Field	3
2.	Parent-as-Researcher: The Politics of Researching in the Personal Life	21
3.	Ethnography and Anxiety: Field Work and Reflexivity in the Vortex of U.S.-Cuban Relations	45
4.	A Feminist Revisiting of the Insider/Outsider Debate: The "Outsider Phenomenon" in Rural Iowa	70
5.	Studying One's Own in the Middle East: Negotiating Gender and Self-Other Dynamics in the Field	95
6.	Interactive Interviewing: Talking About Emotional Experience	119
7.	Reflexivity, Feminism, and Difference	150
8.	Do You Really Know How They Make Love? The Limits on Intimacy With Ethnographic Informants	169
Part II	Voice
9.	The Myth of Silent Authorship: Self, Substance, and Style in Ethnographic Writing	193
10.	Personal Writing in Social Science: Issues of Production and Interpretation	216
11.	Reconsidering "Table Talk": Critical Thoughts on the Relationship Between Sociology, Autobiography, and Self-Indulgence	229
12.	Communication Problems in the Intensive Care Unit	252
13.	Breaking Silence: Some Fieldwork Strategies in Cloistered and Non-Cloistered Communities	265
14.	The Case of Mistaken Identity: Problems in Representing Women on the Right	283
15.	Gender and Voice, Signature and Audience in North Indian Lyric Traditions	300
	About the Contributors	313