Who's Watching?
Daily Practices of Surveillance Among Contemporary Families
Published on 25. September 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
318 pages
978-0-8265-1672-5 (ISBN)
Description
Although sometimes family members engage in monitoring as an extension of governmental surveillance, they also monitor each other, other families, and their own borders to preserve norms about what a family should be and what family members should do. Whether it is the seemingly benign surveillance of using baby monitors, the more obviously intrusive use of home drug tests on teenagers, or the way people in public feel free to judge and comment on the family composition of others, monitoring goes on all the time - and even (or maybe especially) when there seems to be no monitoring going on at all.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Tennessee
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
555 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8265-1672-5 (9780826516725)
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Who's Watching?
Daily Practices of Surveillance among Contemporary Families
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09/2009
1st Edition
Vanderbilt University Press
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Person
Margaret K. Nelson is the Hepburn Professor of Sociology and Women's and Gender Studies at Middlebury College. She is the author of five books, including The Social Economy of Single Motherhood: Raising Children in Rural America and the forthcoming title Parenting Out of Control: The Childrearing Style of the Professional Middle Class. Anita Ilta Garey is Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies and Sociology at the University of Connecticut. Her book Weaving Work and Motherhood was awarded the 2000 William S. Goode Book Award Prize from the Family Section of the American Sociology Association, and she co-edited, with Karen V. Hansen, Families in the U.S.: Kinship and Domestic Politics.
Content
Introduction; - Margaret K. Nelson and Anita Ilta Garey; PART I. They're Watching You Watch Each Other; Chapter 1. Nested Responsibility and the Monitoring of Children and Parents in Family Court; - Anita Ilta Garey; Chapter 2. "Where Are You and What Are You Doing?": Familial Back-Up Work as a Collateral Consequence of House Arrest; - William G. Staples; Chapter 3. Bring It on Home: Home Drug Testing and the Relocation of the War on Drugs; - Dawn Moore and Kevin D. Haggerly; Part II. We're Watching You, We're Watching Each Other; Chapter 4. Interracial Surveillance and Biological Privilege: Adoptive Families in the Public Eye; - Heather Jacobson; Chapter 5. Playground Panopticism: Ring-around-the-Children, a Pocketful of Women; - Holly Blackford; Chapter 6. "I Saw Your Nanny": Gossip and Shame in the Surveillance of Child Care; - Margaret K. Nelson; Part III. Who's In, Who's Out: Monitoring Family Boundaries; Chapter 7. The Social Impact of Amniocentesis; - Rayna Rapp; Chapter 8. Turning Strangers into Kin: Half Siblings and Anonymous Donors; - Rosanna Hertz; Chapter 9. The Powers of Parental Observation: Constructing Networks of Care; - Karen V. Hansen; Chapter 10. "Show Me You Can Be a Father": Maternal Monitoring and Recruitment of Fathers for Involvement in Low-Income Families; - Kevin Roy and Linda Burton; Part IV. Monitoring inside the Family; Chapter 11. Watching Babies: Describing the Use of Baby Monitors on Epinions.com; - Margaret K. Nelson; Chapter 12. Policing Gender Boundaries: Parental Monitoring of Preschool Children's Gender Nonconformity; - Emily W. Kane; Chapter 13. "I Trust Them but I Don't Trust Them": Issues and Dilemmas in Monitoring Teenagers; - Demie Kurz; Chapter 14. The Electronic Tether: Communication and Parental Monitoring during the College Years; - Barbara K. Hofer, Constance Souder, Elena K. Kennedy, Nancy Fullman, and Kathryn Hurd.