Who's Watching?
Daily Practices of Surveillance among Contemporary Families
1st Edition
Published on 25. September 2009
320 pages
978-0-8265-1673-2 (ISBN)
Description
Although family members sometime 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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Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- Guide to Topics
- Acknowledgments
- Who's Watching? An Introductory Essay
- Part I: They're Watching You Watch Each Other
- 1. "Nested Responsibility" and the Monitoring of Children and Parents in Family Court
- 2. "Where Are You and What Are You Doing?"
- 3. Bring It On Home
- Part II: We're Watching You, We're Watching Each Other
- 4. Interracial Surveillance and Biological Privilege
- 5. Playground Panopticism
- 6. "I Saw Your Nanny"
- Part III: Who's In, Who's Out: Monitoring Family Boundaries
- 7. The Social Impact of Amniocentesis
- 8. Turning Strangers into Kin
- 9. The Powers of Parental Observation
- 10. "Show Me You Can Be a Father"
- Part IV: Monitoring inside the Family
- 11. Watching Children
- 12. Policing Gender Boundaries
- 13. "I Trust Them but I Don't Trust Them"
- 14. The Electronic Tether
- Contributors
