M K Nelson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 50124 |
|---|---|
| NOME | M K Nelson |
| PRENOMES | M K |
| SOBRENOME | Nelson |
| ASSINATURA | NELSON M K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Middlebury College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2453-8548 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 47 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 262 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 47 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1982 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Time matters
The Presentation of Donor Conception in Young Adult Fiction
Using a thematic analysis, this study examines the presentation of donor conception in 30 books of fiction written for young adults. Most of the donor-conceived characters in these books live in single mother families, the majority are girls, and most have some kind of status as outsiders. Donor conception is presented differently depending on the type of family in which the teen lives. Children living with single mothers are most often endangere…
Michael’s Clan
The same-sex couples highlighted in this narrative are members of the “families of choice” cohorts that arose during the 1980s. Although they were establishing a new family form, the mothers in a two-mother family told their child that he had a sperm donor “father” whom he could meet when he turned eighteen. When the meeting occurred, the two formed a limited father-child bond. The donor provides emotional support, but he does not offer any mater…
The 7008 Builders
This chapter introduces the members of the 7008er network at the occasion of a significant gathering, when seven families with children born from the same sperm donor come together at a hotel in the Midwest. From the beginning, the children in this network seek to construct themselves as a family. Love, trust, and harmony serve as guideposts in the unscripted land of donor-linked families. They also use structures they know from traditional famil…
Connected Soul Mates
The Soul Mates network is distinctive on two counts. First, it is a large network with over twenty-two children. Second, it represents a turning point in network creation: the initial group formed when all of the children were toddlers. The children in this network thus have known about donor siblings for as long as they can remember. Among the members of this network one finds neither group cohesion nor bland disinterest. Rather the network prov…
Donor-Insemination Motherhood
This article analyzes how the variables of partnership type and gestational status that differentiate among partnered women who achieve motherhood through their own (or a partner's) donor insemination are relevant to shaping that experience. The article demonstrates that the three groups of mothers defined by these two variables differ on a variety of attitudes concerning whom the child resembles, the influence of genes, the position of the sperm…
Pride and concern
Comparative research on sperm donors and egg donors in the United States suggests that while men view themselves as fathers of their offspring, women do not view themselves as mothers. Comparative research suggests as well that men and women are equally interested in contact with offspring, equally curious about them, and equally likely to hold themselves responsible for those offspring. This paper re-examines these differences and similarities u…
Donor Sibling Networks as a Vehicle for Expanding Kinship
This article replicates an earlier study of mothers who had used the same sperm donor to conceive their children and connected through the Internet. The original study finds that these groups interact mainly on the Internet; donor siblings are latent affiliations that could answer questions about the paternal side. This new study of 2,217 parents and 419 offspring offers a comparison of the manner in which these relationships develop, finding tha…
A Golden Weed
Journal Article A Golden Weed: Tobacco and Environment in the Piedmont South Get access Drew A. Swanson. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014. xvi, 342 pp. $45.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 1, June 2015, Pages 247–248, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav261 Published: 01 June 2015
Gendering gametes
The Parent App
Whither Fictive Kin? Or, What's in a Name
Drawing on a survey of more than 600 articles that use the term fictive kin, I demonstrate that this term is used predominantly in reference to African Americans and a variety of marginal people and only rarely is used in conjunction with a mainstream White population. After presenting data on the use of the term, I discuss the implications of these findings. I explore as well two rhetorical shifts in language-the introduction of the notion of fa…
Fictive Kin, Families We Choose, and Voluntary Kin
Scholarship on fictive kinship has relied on many different terminologies. I argue for a new precision. I review existing discussions and draw on those to suggest a new, experimental typology. I suggest that the typology illuminates a variety of issues, including the aspects of family that are accomplished through fictive kin. I also discuss issues surrounding fictive kinship for which no information exists but about which the typology might help…
Donor conceived offspring conceive of the donor
Between Family and Friendship
This article opens with a personal story of caring for a friend during the last months of her life, a story that highlights significant moments when as the caregiver I had to make significant decisions. I then describe the intense disquiet provoked by having to make those decisions from the position of friendship rather than family member. I explore theoretical writings about the difference between family and friends and demonstrate that these wr…
Comment and Reply
James Rule's evaluation of our collection of essays, Who's Watching?: Daily Practices of Surveillance among Contemporary Families, includes the critiques that we fail to offer enough informative and news, and that we fail to estab lish thematic normative stance?e.g., given forms of surveillance should be cur tailed, encouraged, regulated or, censored. All essay collections build generalizations from the ground up. This one is no excep tion. In ou…
Insufficient Funds
Watching Children
Popular culture today characterizes middle-class parents as being consumed with anxiety about their children. Drawing on more than 100 consumer reviews of baby monitors published on Epinions.com, the author examines how parents respond to that anxiety. Although Epinions.com reviewers are not representative of the population at large, they do represent married, well-educated women. The author demonstrates that in their discussions of monitors, par…
Ongoing Challenges in the Understanding of Rural Poverty
This paper draws on two projects by the author to draw some general conclusions about ongoing challenges in the understanding of poverty. In the first project, the author examined the survival strategies of married couple families in a rural county and concluded that access to good work enabled enrichment of those strategies. In the second project, located in the same rural county, the author concluded that single mothers were less able than the …
Day Care Differences and the Reproduction of Social Class
Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in two day care centers-the Green Mountain Child Care Center in College Town, Vermont, and the Rocky Mountain Christian Day Care in Coalville, Wyoming-the authors demonstrate differences between centers serving different segments of the population. The authors rely on Annette Lareau's (2003) concepts of "concerted cultivation" and the "accomplishment of natural growth" as a way to describe these differen…
Families in Not‐So‐Free Fall
Single Mothers "Do" Family
This paper explores how single mothers both incorporate others into family life (e.g., when they ask others to care for their children) and simultaneously "do families" in a manner that holds out a vision of a "traditional" family structure. Drawing on research with White, rural single mothers, the author explores the manner in which these women both endorse their children's attachment to other caregivers and maintain boundaries around issues of …
How men matter
This paper compares married-couple households and single-mother households in the same rural area of the United States with respect to both housework and other efforts household members make to provide through their own labor goods and services they would otherwise have to purchase in the market. I argue that single mothers are disadvantaged in ways not fully captured with reference to income levels alone (on which the concept of the feminization…
Declaring Welfare “Reform” a Success
This paper considers how applied social science has simultaneously helped to create the social change known as welfare “reform” and actively participated in the positive evaluation of its effects. It takes as its specific case study Vermont's welfare restructuring project and the evaluation of that project as completed by the Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation. The analysis covers the goals of welfare restructuring, the ethics of experim…
Artisans of Democracy
Single Mothers "Do" Family
This paper explores how single mothers both incorporate others into family life (e.g., when they ask others to care for their children) and simultaneously "do families" in a manner that holds out a vision of a "traditional" family structure. Drawing on research with White, rural single mothers, the author explores the manner in which these women both endorse their children's attachment to other caregivers and maintain boundaries around issues of …
Insufficient Funds
Working-Class Women, Middle-Class Women, and Models of Childbirth
This paper suggests that middle-class feminists who have urged a new vision of childbirth are out of touch with the needs of working-class women. This conclusion is derived from a review of the childbirth literature and an analysis of data collected from 322 women who gave birth in a northern New England teaching hospital. The literature on childbirth—whether written from a feminist or non-feminist perspective—ignores the variable of social class…
Fictive Kin, Families We Choose, and Voluntary Kin
Scholarship on fictive kinship has relied on many different terminologies. I argue for a new precision. I review existing discussions and draw on those to suggest a new, experimental typology. I suggest that the typology illuminates a variety of issues, including the aspects of family that are accomplished through fictive kin. I also discuss issues surrounding fictive kinship for which no information exists but about which the typology might help…
Donor conceived offspring conceive of the donor
Economic Restructuring, Gender, and Informal Work
This paper combines three issues that have previously been considered separately: economic restructuring, gender, and participation in the informal economy. Drawing on two complementary data sets of interviews with the residents of a rural county, the paper first suggests that the participation in the informal economy is extensive. The second major finding is that households whose members have held on to 'good' work in the formal economy particip…
Whither Fictive Kin? Or, What's in a Name
Drawing on a survey of more than 600 articles that use the term fictive kin, I demonstrate that this term is used predominantly in reference to African Americans and a variety of marginal people and only rarely is used in conjunction with a mainstream White population. After presenting data on the use of the term, I discuss the implications of these findings. I explore as well two rhetorical shifts in language-the introduction of the notion of fa…
Day Care Differences and the Reproduction of Social Class
Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in two day care centers-the Green Mountain Child Care Center in College Town, Vermont, and the Rocky Mountain Christian Day Care in Coalville, Wyoming-the authors demonstrate differences between centers serving different segments of the population. The authors rely on Annette Lareau's (2003) concepts of "concerted cultivation" and the "accomplishment of natural growth" as a way to describe these differen…
The Challenge of Self-sufficiency
Drawing on interviews conducted with fifty-one single mothers in a rural state, this article explores how women who rely on state assistance sustain a belief in their own self-worth. The article first shows that single mothers hold firmly to the value of self-sufficiency. It then shows that they can hold to that value because they believe that their welfare reliance is different from that of other women and because they redefine independence to a…
Economic Restructuring, Household Strategies, and Gender
Mothering Others' Children
Donor Sibling Networks as a Vehicle for Expanding Kinship
This article replicates an earlier study of mothers who had used the same sperm donor to conceive their children and connected through the Internet. The original study finds that these groups interact mainly on the Internet; donor siblings are latent affiliations that could answer questions about the paternal side. This new study of 2,217 parents and 419 offspring offers a comparison of the manner in which these relationships develop, finding tha…
Gendering gametes
The Parent App
Ongoing Challenges in the Understanding of Rural Poverty
This paper draws on two projects by the author to draw some general conclusions about ongoing challenges in the understanding of poverty. In the first project, the author examined the survival strategies of married couple families in a rural county and concluded that access to good work enabled enrichment of those strategies. In the second project, located in the same rural county, the author concluded that single mothers were less able than the …
How men matter
This paper compares married-couple households and single-mother households in the same rural area of the United States with respect to both housework and other efforts household members make to provide through their own labor goods and services they would otherwise have to purchase in the market. I argue that single mothers are disadvantaged in ways not fully captured with reference to income levels alone (on which the concept of the feminization…
Providing Family Day Care
Journal Article Providing Family Day Care: An Analysis of Home-Based Work Get access Margaret K. Nelson Margaret K. Nelson Middlebury College Correspondence to: Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT 05753. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 35, Issue 1, 1 February 1988, Pages 78–94, https://doi.org/10.2307/800668 Published: 31 July 2014
Between Paid and Unpaid Work
This article explores gender differences in three varieties of economic activities that supplement regular employment and housework: entrepreneurial moonlighting, self-provisioning, and casual exchanges with the members of other households. Drawing on data gathered through a random survey and interviews conducted with a white, rural, working-class population, gender differences were found in the content of these activities, their location, the ti…
Negotiating Care
Families in Not‐So‐Free Fall
Declaring Welfare “Reform” a Success
This paper considers how applied social science has simultaneously helped to create the social change known as welfare “reform” and actively participated in the positive evaluation of its effects. It takes as its specific case study Vermont's welfare restructuring project and the evaluation of that project as completed by the Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation. The analysis covers the goals of welfare restructuring, the ethics of experim…
Danger, Community, and the Meaning of Crime Watch
This article compares the meaning of neighborhood crime watch for White and African American participants. Both Whites and African Americans from crime watch groups to improve security and enhance neighborhood solidarity. They seek to accomplish these goals by becoming the "eyes and ears of the police." African Americans, however, also form crime watch groups to restore the roles of "othermothers" and "old heads." This race-based difference in th…
The Effect of Childbirth Preparation on Women of Different Social Classes
This paper reexamines the impact of preparation for childbirth on birth-related attitudes and events. Data were collected from approximately 300 obstetric patients before and immediately following childbirth. These data are used to demonstrate that working class and middle class women (in this study, defined on the basis of highest level of education) who do not attend childbirth classes have different attitudes toward, and experiences during, ch…
Watching Children
Popular culture today characterizes middle-class parents as being consumed with anxiety about their children. Drawing on more than 100 consumer reviews of baby monitors published on Epinions.com, the author examines how parents respond to that anxiety. Although Epinions.com reviewers are not representative of the population at large, they do represent married, well-educated women. The author demonstrates that in their discussions of monitors, par…
Feeding the Family
The Effect of Childbirth Preparation on Women of Different Social Classes
This paper reexamines the impact of preparation for childbirth on birth-related attitudes and events. Data were collected from approximately 300 obstetric patients before and immediately following childbirth. These data are used to demonstrate that working class and middle class women (in this study, defined on the basis of highest level of education) who do not attend childbirth classes have different attitudes toward, and experiences during, ch…
From the One-Room Schoolhouse to the Graded School
Because Vermont is a decidedly rural state it is a useful site for research into a particular aspect of the history of the teaching occupation: the transition from the easy-entry occupation of educating children in one-room schoolhouses to the more modern occupation of working within the structure of graded schools. The consolidation of public schools occurred very late in Vermont. Its geography (mountains, farms, isolated towns) and climate (sno…
Working-Class Women, Middle-Class Women, and Models of Childbirth
This paper suggests that middle-class feminists who have urged a new vision of childbirth are out of touch with the needs of working-class women. This conclusion is derived from a review of the childbirth literature and an analysis of data collected from 322 women who gave birth in a northern New England teaching hospital. The literature on childbirth—whether written from a feminist or non-feminist perspective—ignores the variable of social class…
The Informed Client
Mortals in the Immortal Profession
Providing Family Day Care
Journal Article Providing Family Day Care: An Analysis of Home-Based Work Get access Margaret K. Nelson Margaret K. Nelson Middlebury College Correspondence to: Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT 05753. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 35, Issue 1, 1 February 1988, Pages 78–94, https://doi.org/10.2307/800668 Published: 31 July 2014
Hidden aspects of women's work
Negotiating Care
Mothering Others' Children
Negotiated Care
Weaving together numerous richly detailed interviews and surveys with recent feminist literature on the role of caregiving in women's lives and investigations of women's involvement in home-based work, this book explores the daily lives of family day care providers. Margaret K. Nelson uncovers the dilemmas providers face in their relationships with parents who bring children to them, with the children themselves, with the providers' family member…
Negotiated Care
The Reconstruction of Family Policy
Negotiated Care
Feeding the Family
Raised in East Urban
Mother-Headed Families and Why They Have Increased
Other People's Children
Danger, Community, and the Meaning of Crime Watch
This article compares the meaning of neighborhood crime watch for White and African American participants. Both Whites and African Americans from crime watch groups to improve security and enhance neighborhood solidarity. They seek to accomplish these goals by becoming the "eyes and ears of the police." African Americans, however, also form crime watch groups to restore the roles of "othermothers" and "old heads." This race-based difference in th…
Economic Restructuring, Household Strategies, and Gender
Between Paid and Unpaid Work
This article explores gender differences in three varieties of economic activities that supplement regular employment and housework: entrepreneurial moonlighting, self-provisioning, and casual exchanges with the members of other households. Drawing on data gathered through a random survey and interviews conducted with a white, rural, working-class population, gender differences were found in the content of these activities, their location, the ti…
Economic Restructuring, Gender, and Informal Work
This paper combines three issues that have previously been considered separately: economic restructuring, gender, and participation in the informal economy. Drawing on two complementary data sets of interviews with the residents of a rural county, the paper first suggests that the participation in the informal economy is extensive. The second major finding is that households whose members have held on to 'good' work in the formal economy particip…
Declaring Welfare “Reform” a Success
This paper considers how applied social science has simultaneously helped to create the social change known as welfare “reform” and actively participated in the positive evaluation of its effects. It takes as its specific case study Vermont's welfare restructuring project and the evaluation of that project as completed by the Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation. The analysis covers the goals of welfare restructuring, the ethics of experim…
Artisans of Democracy
The Challenge of Self-sufficiency
Drawing on interviews conducted with fifty-one single mothers in a rural state, this article explores how women who rely on state assistance sustain a belief in their own self-worth. The article first shows that single mothers hold firmly to the value of self-sufficiency. It then shows that they can hold to that value because they believe that their welfare reliance is different from that of other women and because they redefine independence to a…
How men matter
This paper compares married-couple households and single-mother households in the same rural area of the United States with respect to both housework and other efforts household members make to provide through their own labor goods and services they would otherwise have to purchase in the market. I argue that single mothers are disadvantaged in ways not fully captured with reference to income levels alone (on which the concept of the feminization…
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