From Her Side of the Gossamer Wall(s)

I am a Professor of Sociology and Women’s and Gender Studies at Brock University and I hold the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Gender, Work and Care. Most of my research and writing has travelled along three paths: ethnographic research on meanings and daily practices of caregiving responsibilities, especially for fathers; methodological, epistemological, ethical, and ontological issues in knowing with and from narrative accounts; and an attentiveness to genealogies of concept formation, especially concepts of responsibility, embodiment, time, care and work. My book Do Men Mother? which traversed, or began to, all three of these pathways, was awarded the John Porter Tradition of Excellence Book Award from the Canadian Sociological Association. Read more...