Martha K. Huggins is Charles and Leo Favrot Professor of Human Relations and professor of sociology and Latin American studies at Tulane University. Marie-Louise Glebbeek is assistant professor in the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Utrecht University.

If you take gender, fieldwork, and theory seriously, this is the book you want to read. Leading scholars across disciplines 'in the field' take us to the intersections of danger, identity, and ethics as we both live them in our world and explore them in our writing. These are academic crossroads at their creative best.

• Introduction: Similarities among DifferencesPart I: Gender's Front Stage: Insiders and OutsidersChapter 1:Fixing and Negotiating Identities in the Field: The Case of Lebanese ShiitesChapter 2: Studying Environmental Rights and Land Usage: Undergraduate Researcher Gets "Gendered In"Chapter 3: Globalizing Feminist ResearchChapter 4: Veiling the "Dangers" of Colliding Borders: Tourism and Gender in ZanzibarPart II: Danger and "Safe Spaces"Chapter 5: Gendered Observations: Activism, Advocacy, and the AcademyChapter 6: Human Rights in East Timor: Advocacy and Ethics in the FieldChapter 7: Securing "Safe Spaces": Field Diplomacy in Albania and KosovoPart III: Negotiating Research IdentitiesChapter 8: Negotiating the Field in Rural India: Location, Organization and Identity SalienceChapter 9: Perils of Witnessing and Ambivalence of Writing: Whiteness, Sexuality, and Violence in Rio de Janeiro ShantytownsChapter 10: Power, Safety and Ethics in Cross-Gendered Research with Violent MenChapter 11: Negotiating the Muddiness of Grassroots Research: Managing Identity and Data in Rural El SalvadorPart IV: Ethics and SecrecyChapter 12: Secrecy and Trust in the Affective Field: Conducting Field Work in BurmaChapter 13: The Veiled Feminist Ethnographer: Fieldwork among Women of India's Hindu RightChapter 14: Studying Violent Male Institutions: Cross-Gender Dynamics in Police Research—Secrecy and Danger in Brazil and Guatemala

Martha K. Huggins is Charles and Leo Favrot Professor of Human Relations and professor of sociology and Latin American studies at Tulane University. Marie-Louise Glebbeek is assistant professor in the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Utrecht University.

If you take gender, fieldwork, and theory seriously, this is the book you want to read. Leading scholars across disciplines 'in the field' take us to the intersections of danger, identity, and ethics as we both live them in our world and explore them in our writing. These are academic crossroads at their creative best.

• Introduction: Similarities among DifferencesPart I: Gender's Front Stage: Insiders and OutsidersChapter 1:Fixing and Negotiating Identities in the Field: The Case of Lebanese ShiitesChapter 2: Studying Environmental Rights and Land Usage: Undergraduate Researcher Gets "Gendered In"Chapter 3: Globalizing Feminist ResearchChapter 4: Veiling the "Dangers" of Colliding Borders: Tourism and Gender in ZanzibarPart II: Danger and "Safe Spaces"Chapter 5: Gendered Observations: Activism, Advocacy, and the AcademyChapter 6: Human Rights in East Timor: Advocacy and Ethics in the FieldChapter 7: Securing "Safe Spaces": Field Diplomacy in Albania and KosovoPart III: Negotiating Research IdentitiesChapter 8: Negotiating the Field in Rural India: Location, Organization and Identity SalienceChapter 9: Perils of Witnessing and Ambivalence of Writing: Whiteness, Sexuality, and Violence in Rio de Janeiro ShantytownsChapter 10: Power, Safety and Ethics in Cross-Gendered Research with Violent MenChapter 11: Negotiating the Muddiness of Grassroots Research: Managing Identity and Data in Rural El SalvadorPart IV: Ethics and SecrecyChapter 12: Secrecy and Trust in the Affective Field: Conducting Field Work in BurmaChapter 13: The Veiled Feminist Ethnographer: Fieldwork among Women of India's Hindu RightChapter 14: Studying Violent Male Institutions: Cross-Gender Dynamics in Police Research—Secrecy and Danger in Brazil and Guatemala