Who's Watching?
by Nelson, Margaret K.; Garey, Anita IltaEdition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2009-09-25
Publisher(s): Vanderbilt Univ Pr
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Summary
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.
Author Biography
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 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.
Table of Contents
| Guide to Topics | p. xi |
| Acknowledgments | p. xv |
| Who's Watching? An Introduction Essay | p. 1 |
| They're Watching You Watch Each Other | p. 17 |
| ""Nested Responsibility"" and the Monitoring of Children and Parents in Family Court | p. 19 |
| ""Where Are You and What Are You Doing?"" Familial Back-Up Work as a Collateral Consequence of House Arrest | p. 33 |
| Bring It On Home Home Drug Testing and the Relocation of the War on Drugs | p. 54 |
| We're Watching You, We're Watching Each Other | p. 71 |
| Interracial Surveillance and Biological Privilege Adoptive Families in the Public Eye | p. 73 |
| Playground Panopticism Ring-around-the-Children, a Pocketful of Women | p. 94 |
| ""I Saw Your Nanny"" Gossip and Shame in the Surveillance of Child Care | p. 109 |
| Who's In, Who's Out: Monitoring Family Boundaries | p. 135 |
| The Social Impact of Amniocentesis | p. 137 |
| Turning Strangers into Kin Half Siblings and Anonymous Donors | p. 156 |
| The Powers of Parental Observation Constructing Networks of Care | p. 175 |
| ""Show Me You Can Be a Father"" Maternal Monitoring and Recruitment of Fathers for Involvement in Low-Income Families | p. 192 |
| Monitoring inside the Family | p. 217 |
| Watching Children Describing the Use of Baby Monitors on Epinions.com | p. 219 |
| Policing Gender Boundaries Parental Monitoring of Preschool Children's Gender Nonconformity | p. 239 |
| ""I Trust Them but I Don't Trust Them"" Issues and Dilemmas in Monitoring Teenagers | p. 260 |
| The Electronic Tether Communication and Parental Monitoring during the College Years | p. 277 |
| Contributors | p. 295 |
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