Mothering from the Field: The Impact of Motherhood on Site-Based Research

By: Kelly Ward and Lisa Wolf-Wendel and Lindsey Alyssa Marco and Stacey Camp and Kelley Sams and Lydia Zacher Dixon and Cecilia Vindrola-Padros and Muntaquim Muhammad and Grace Karram Stephenson and John M Stephenson and Joanne Florence Karram and Brian C Wolf and Anne Hardgrove and Kimberly Garland-Campbell and Sarah Kelman and Marylynn Steckley and Deirdre Guthrie and Aprille Ericsson and Arielle Ericsson White and Dawn Ericsson-Provine and Mikae Provine and Pierre Ericsson and Ryanne Pilgeram

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Synopsis: 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.