Who's Watching?: Daily Practices of Surveillance among Contemporary Families

Table of Contents......Page 8
Guide to Topics......Page 12
Acknowledgments......Page 16
Who’s Watching?......Page 20
I. They’re Watching You Watch Each Other......Page 36
1. “Nested Responsibility” and the Monitoring of Children and Parents in Family Court......Page 38
2. “Where Are You and What Are You Doing?”......Page 52
3. Bring It On Home......Page 73
II. We’re Watching You, We’re Watching Each Other......Page 90
4. Interracial Surveillance and Biological Privilege......Page 92
5. Playground Panopticism......Page 113
6. “I Saw Your Nanny”......Page 128
III. Who’s In, Who’s Out: Monitoring Family Boundaries......Page 154
7. The Social Impact of Amniocentesis......Page 156
8. Turning Strangers into Kin......Page 175
9. The Powers of Parental Observation......Page 194
10. “Show Me You Can Be a Father”......Page 211
IV. Monitoring inside the Family......Page 236
11. Watching Children......Page 238
12. Policing Gender Boundaries......Page 258
13. “I Trust Them but I Don’t Trust Them”......Page 279
14. The Electronic Tether......Page 296
Contributors......Page 314