On Careful & Engaged Knowing

I hold the Canada Research Chair in Gender Work and Care. I am also a Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at Brock University in the beautiful Niagara region of Ontario, Canada. For the last twenty years, most of my work has hovered around, and landed on, two central puzzles; the first relates to enduring gender differences in the ‘response-ability’ for care work, domestic life, and community work while the second is about how we come to know and represent ordinary and extraordinary stories. Read more...

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