Rosanna Hertz Research Articles

Rosanna Hertz and Margaret K. Nelson, Random Families: Genetic Strangers, Sperm Donor Siblings, and the Creation of New Kin

Rosanna Hertz and Margaret K. Nelson, Random Families: Genetic Strangers, Sperm Donor Siblings, and the Creation of New Kin

Single by Chance, Mothers by Choice: How Women Are Choosing Parenthood without Marriage and Creating the New American Family. By Rosanna Hertz. New York: Oxford University Press. 2006. Pp. ix+273. $26.00.

<i>Single by Chance, Mothers by Choice: How Women Are Choosing Parenthood without Marriage and Creating the New American Family</i>. By Rosanna Hertz. New York: Oxford University Press. 2006. Pp. ix+273. $26.00.

Book Review: Single by Chance, Mothers by Choice: How Women are Choosing Parenthood without Marriage and Creating the New American Family. By Rosanna Hertz. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, 304 pp., $26.00 (cloth)

Book Review: Single by Chance, Mothers by Choice: How Women are Choosing Parenthood without Marriage and Creating the New American Family. By Rosanna Hertz. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, 304 pp., $26.00 (cloth)

Single by Chance, Mothers by Choice: How Women are Choosing Parenthood Without Marriage and Creating the New American Family By Rosanna Hertz Oxford University Press, 2006. 264 pages. $26 cloth

Single by Chance, Mothers by Choice: How Women are Choosing Parenthood Without Marriage and Creating the New American Family By Rosanna Hertz Oxford University Press, 2006. 264 pages. $26 cloth

Single by Chance, Mothers by Choice: How Women are Choosing Parenthood Without Marriage and Creating the New American Family By: Rosanna Hertz

Single by Chance, Mothers by Choice: How Women are Choosing Parenthood Without Marriage and Creating the New American Family By: Rosanna Hertz

Choosing Single Motherhood: Single by Chance, Mothers by Choice: How Women are Choosing Parenthood without Marriage and Creating the New American Family by Rosanna Hertz Oxford University Press, 2006, 264 pages

Choosing Single Motherhood: <i>Single by Chance, Mothers by Choice: How Women are Choosing Parenthood without Marriage and Creating the New American Family</i> by Rosanna Hertz Oxford University Press, 2006, 264 pages

Single by Chance, Mothers by Choice: How Women are Choosing Parenthood Without Marriage and Creating the New American Family ‐ Edited by Rosanna Hertz

Single by Chance, Mothers by Choice: How Women Are Choosing Parenthood Without Marriage and Creating the New American Family. Rosanna Hertz. New York: Oxford University Press, Inc. 2006. 264 pp. ISBN 0-19-517990-0. $26.00.1 The shape of the American family is changing and, in her excellent book Single by Chance, Mothers by Choice: How Women Are Choosing Parenthood Without Marriage and Creating the New American Family, Rosanna Hertz explores one of the new structures emerging in the evolution of the families. To study the dynamic of single women choosing to embark on motherhood alone, Hertz conducted in-depth interviews of 65 single mothers. These are not the single mothers sometimes portrayed in the media as welfare recipients or unprepared teenagers; as Hertz describes her sample, they are generally middle-class women who grew up expecting they would be able to balance marriage, motherhood, and a career. Yet, as Hertz explains, Something conspired to disrupt the trajectory of love to marriage to (p. 3). In analyzing the histories of these women, Hertz identifies four distinct pathways to motherhood: women who bought anonymous sperm from fertility banks; women who used known sperm donors; women who adopted children from all over the world; and women who by using inconsistent contraception. In each case, the women were faced with hard choices, and most postponed the decision to have a child alone at least once. Hertz describes the phase before single motherhood as a liminal state, a time in which these unmarried women imagined their lives as single mothers, visualizing the process before taking action. Hertz introduces us to a world of families where men are essentially optional. Those women who chanced pregnancy and those who chose known donors often absolved the fathers of all responsibilities as breadwinners and authority figures. In such cases, many women negotiated fiercely for contractual protection giving them sole custody and responsibility for their children. If the fathers or donors wished to be involved with their children, their success as good dads was understood as maintaining some social involvement with their child but making no other claims. Women who used anonymous sperm donors or adopted children faced a different set of challenges. Because the identity of the biological parents or donors is often protected, the single mothers do not have to worry that anyone will show up to demand their parental rights, but they do have to find a way to create some image or identity for the children to associate with their fathers and, by extension, themselves. …

Talking About “Doing” Family

Journal of Marriage and FamilyVolume 68, Issue 4 p. 796-799 Talking About “Doing” Family Rosanna Hertz, Corresponding Author Rosanna Hertz Wellesley CollegeDepartments of Sociology and Women’s Studies, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA 02481 (rhertz@wellesley.edu).Search for more papers by this author Rosanna Hertz, Corresponding Author Rosanna Hertz Wellesley CollegeDepartments of Sociology and Women’s Studies, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA 02481 (rhertz@wellesley.edu).Search for more papers by this author First published: 13 October 2006 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-3737.2006.00293.xCitations: 12Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume68, Issue4November 2006Pages 796-799 RelatedInformation

Rosanna Hertz, Single by Chance, Mothers by Choice: How Women are Choosing Parenthood Without Marriage and Creating the New American Family

society and seek to dispense with men? My own answer is better informed after reading ‘‘Single By Chance, Mothers By Choice: How Women Are Choosing Parenthood Without Marriage And Creating The New American Family, a useful text for upper division classes and graduate seminars on family, the law, women’s studies, nursing and other fields such as medical anthropology. It will likely be useful to give to friends contemplating parenthood as well as to place in family courts, and clinician offices. Rosanna Hertz, Luella LaMer Professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies at Wellesley College, has written this telling book on motherhood in nine chapters, an epilog, detailed chapter notes and a methods appendix. Her work lets us look into, more than at, some of the complex and heartfelt processes of single women’s womanhood, motherhood, and parenthood. I say parenthood rather than motherhood, because many of the 65 women interviewed take on both the performance of motherhood and a sort of ‘‘Imagineering’’ of fatherhood. Indeed while the interviews were with women-becomemothers, fathers (their absence, their biological and social roles, their imagined, wished-for, contractual, emergent and departing presence, and even these mothers own fathers) are also a focus throughout the book and especially in chapters four ‘‘The Father as an idea’’ and seven ‘‘A world without men, Amen?’’ In the earlier chapters and introduction, the author reviews feminist notions and many women’s standoffish acceptance of feminist values. This stance appears in the informants’ acceptance of feminist goals such as more nearly equitable pay and opportunity and more acceptance as well as respect for, women’s decisions. Even decisions like single mothering that a generation ago would have lead to stigmatization and public rebuke.

Rosanna Hertz, Single by Chance, Mothers by Choice: How Women are Choosing Parenthood Without Marriage and Creating the New American Family

Rosanna Hertz, Single by Chance, Mothers by Choice: How Women are Choosing Parenthood Without Marriage and Creating the New American Family

Heuristic research as a vehicle for personal and professional development

This paper reports one aspect of a more extensive narrative inquiry into how two counsellors experienced their involvement in heuristic research and the contribution it made to their personal development. The paper is located within stories of Becoming a Reflexive Researcher: Using Our Selves in Research (2004) and shows how reflexive conversations enabled participants to co‐construct meaning and create what Rosanna Hertz called ‘reflexive knowledge’ (1996).

Our studies, ourselves: sociologists' lives and work

What motivates a lifelong scholarly pursuit, and how do one's studies inform life outside the academy? Sociologists, who live in families but also study families, who go to work but also study work, who participate in communities but also try to understand communities, have an especially intimate relation to their research. Growing up poor, struggling as a woman in a male-dominated profession, participating in protests against the Vietnam War; facts of life influence research agendas, individual understandings of the world, and ultimately the shape of the discipline as a whole. Barry Glassner and Rosanna Hertz asked twenty-two of America's most prominent sociologists to reflect upon how their personal lives influenced their research, and vice versa, how their research has influenced their lives. In this volume, the authors reveal with candor and discernment how world events, political commitments and unanticipated constraints influenced the course of their careers. They disclose how race, class, and gender proved to be pivotal elements in the course of their individual lives, and in how they carry out their research. Faced with academic institutions that did not hire or promote persons of their gender, race, sexual orientation, or physical disability, they invented new routes to success within their fields. Faced with disappointments in political organizations to which they were devoted, they found ways to integrate their disillusionment into their research agendas. While some of the contributors radically changed their political commitments, and others saw more stability, none stood still. An intimate look at biography and craft, these snapshots provide a fascinating glimpse of the sociological life for colleagues, other academics, and aspiring young sociologists. The collection demonstrates how inequalities and injustices can be made into motors for scholarly research, which in turn have the power to change individual life courses and entire societies.

The Power of Good Deeds: Privileged Women and the Social Reproduction of the Upper Class. By Diana Kendall. Lanham, Md.: Rowman &amp; Littlefield, 2002. Pp. viii+195. $69.00 (cloth); $23.95 (paper).

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Working Families: The Transformation of the American Home

Preface Introduction by Rosanna Hertz and Nancy L. Marshall PART ONE: Changing Families 1. The Rise of the Dual-Worker Family, 1963-1997, by Linda J. Waite and Mark Nielsen 2. Gendered Careers: A Life Course Perspective, by Phyllis Moen and Shin-Kap Han3. Getting Younger While Getting Older: Family-Building at Midlife, by Lillian B. Rubin 4. Men's Family Work: Child-Centered Fathering and the Sharing of Domestic Labor, by Scott Coltrane and Michele Adams PART TWO: Changing Workplaces 5. Family-Responsive Benefits and the Two-Tiered Labor Market, by Cynthia H. Deitch and Matt L. Huffman 6. How Are Small Businesses Responding to Work and Family Issues? by Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes and Leon Litchfield 7. Part-Time Work Arrangements and the Corporation: A Dynamic Interaction, by Marcia Brumit Kropf 8. Toward a New View of Work and Family Life, by Ellen Galinsky 9. Work, Family, and Globalization: Broadening the Scope of Policy Analysis, by Harriet E. Gross PART THREE: Heartstrings and Pursestrings: Gendered Views from Within 10. Changing the Structure and Culture of Work: Work-Family Conflict, Work Flexibility, and Gender Equity in the Modern Workplace, by Kathleen Gerson and Jerry A. Jacobs 11. Workplace Policies and the Psychological Well-Being of First-Time Parents: The Case of Working-Class Families, by Heather-Lyn Haley, Maureen Perry-Jenkins, and Amy Armenia 12. Work, Family, and Gender in Medicine: How Do Dual-Earners Decide Who Should Work Less? by Lena M. Lundgren, Jennifer Fleischer-Cooperman, Robert Schneider, and Therese Fitzgerald 13. From Babysitters to Child Care Providers: The Development of a Feminist Consciousness in Family Day Care Workers, by Heather M. Fitz Gibbon PART FOUR: Children's Experiences 14. Children, Work, and Family: Some Thoughts on Mother Blame, by Anita Ilta Garey and Terry Arendell 15. The Kinderdult: The New Child Born to Conflict between Work and Family, by Diane Ehrensaft 16. Passing between the Worlds of Maid and Mistress: The Life Story of a Mexican Maid's Daughter, by Mary Romero 17. Eavesdropping Children, Adult Deals, and Cultures of Care, by Arlie Russell Hochschild 18. Pick-Up Time at Oakdale Elementary School: Work and Family from the Vantage Points of Children, by Barrie Thorne Contributors Index

Working Families: The Transformation of the American Home, edited by Rosanna Hertz and Nancy L. Marshall. University of California Press, 2001, 389 pp., pbk $50, hbk $19.95

Gender, Work & OrganizationVolume 10, Issue 1 p. 125-127 Working Families: The Transformation of the American Home, edited by Rosanna Hertz and Nancy L. Marshall. University of California Press, 2001, 389 pp., pbk $50, hbk $19.95 AGNIESZKA GRAFF, AGNIESZKA GRAFF American Studies Center Warsaw University, PolandSearch for more papers by this author AGNIESZKA GRAFF, AGNIESZKA GRAFF American Studies Center Warsaw University, PolandSearch for more papers by this author First published: 03 September 2009 https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0432.t01-1-00006Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Volume10, Issue1January 2003Pages 125-127 RelatedInformation

Working Families: The Transformation of the American Home. Edited by Rosanna Hertz and Nancy L. Marshall. University of California Press, 2001. 389 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $19.95

Working Families: The Transformation of the American Home. Edited by Rosanna Hertz and Nancy L. Marshall. University of California Press, 2001. 389 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $19.95

Working Families: The Transformation of the American Home. Edited by Rosanna Hertz and Nancy L. Marshall. University of California Press, 2000. 389 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $19.95

Working Families: The Transformation of the American Home. Edited by Rosanna Hertz and Nancy L. Marshall. University of California Press, 2000. 389 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $19.95

Voiced and Unvoiced

David K. Dunaway and Willa K. Baum (eds.), Oral History: An Interdisciplinary Anthology . Walnut Creek and London: Altamira, 1997, £39.00, paperback £18.95, 432 pp. (ISBN 0-7619-9188-3). Rosanna Hertz (ed.), Reflexivity and Voice . Thousand Oaks and London: Sage, 1997, £38.00, paperback £17.95, xviii+1318 pp. (ISBN 0-7619-0383-6). Lewis P. Hinchman and Sandra K. Hinchman (eds.), Memory, Identity, Com-munity: The Idea of Narrative in the Human Sciences . Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997, $19.95 paperback, xxxii+1393 pp. (ISBN 0-7914-3323-4). Deborah E. Reed-Danahay (ed.), Auto/Ethnography: Rewriting the Self and the Social. Oxford: Berg, 1997, £34.99, paperback £14.99, xi+1277 pp. (ISBN 1-85973-970-9). Kim Marie Vaz (ed.), Oral Narrative Research with Black Women. Thousand Oaks and London: Sage, 1997, £38.00, paperback £17.95, x+1262 pp. (ISBN 0-8039-7428-0). Whether or not you subscribe to the view that the grand narratives of history, modernity and enlightenment are passe, you cannot fail to notice the proliferation of smaller, local narratives. The literature of the social sciences is increasingly populated by a variety of lives, life-histories, auto/biographies, auto-ethnographies and other narratives. Sociologists, anthropologists and others, in increasing numbers, have been turning their attention to the collection and documentation of ‘lives’, including their own. The biographical has taken on a renewed currency, invested with methodological and ethical significance. There is a polyphony of ‘voices’ clamouring for attention. There is, of course, nothing absolutely novel in this. At one time, life-histories and similar documents of life were celebrated as a prime source of sociological data and insight, articulating the intersection between the personal and the social. The career or the life could thus be seen to capture some of the complex relationships between socialisation and social organisation, between process and social order, or between institutions and the person. Having for some time been eclipsed and all but excluded from the methodological canon, the biographical perspective has enjoyed a significant revival in recent years. There has been an upsurge of empirical, methodological and reflective writing on biographical approaches to social research. They have received fresh legitimation from a variety of contemporary standpoints — feminist, post-structuralist and postcolonialist among them. Indeed, the celebration of multiple ‘voices’ to be found in much of the literature parallels the multiplicity of epistemological ‘positions’ to be found in contemporary social research. The books under review — and many other in the same genre — reflect those different perspectives, illustrating at once the various opportunities and limitations of contemporary work in this area. In their diversity they also display the extent to which various sub-genres develop in mutual isolation, mirroring specific disciplinary, national and empirical preoccupations. Collectively they embody a number of unresolved tensions in the systematic exploration of social actors' lives, voices and identities.

VOICED AND UNVOICED

David K. Dunaway and Willa K. Baum (eds.), Oral History: An Interdisciplinary Anthology. Walnut Creek and London: Altamira, 1997, £39.00, paperback £18.95, 432 pp. (ISBN 0-7619-9188-3).Rosanna Hertz (ed.), Reflexivity and Voice. Thousand Oaks and London: Sage, 1997, £38.00, paperback £17.95, xviii+1318 pp. (ISBN 0-7619-0383-6).Lewis P. Hinchman and Sandra K. Hinchman (eds.), Memory, Identity, Com-munity: The Idea of Narrative in the Human Sciences. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997, $19.95 paperback, xxxii+1393 pp. (ISBN 0-7914-3323-4).Deborah E. Reed-Danahay (ed.), Auto/Ethnography: Rewriting the Self and the Social. Oxford: Berg, 1997, £34.99, paperback £14.99, xi+1277 pp. (ISBN 1-85973-970-9).Kim Marie Vaz (ed.), Oral Narrative Research with Black Women. Thousand Oaks and London: Sage, 1997, £38.00, paperback £17.95, x+1262 pp. (ISBN 0-8039-7428-0).Whether or not you subscribe to the view that the grand narratives of history, modernity and enlightenment are passé, you cannot fail to notice the proliferation of smaller, local narratives. The literature of the social sciences is increasingly populated by a variety of lives, life-histories, auto/biographies, auto-ethnographies and other narratives. Sociologists, anthropologists and others, in increasing numbers, have been turning their attention to the collection and documentation of ‘lives’, including their own. The biographical has taken on a renewed currency, invested with methodological and ethical significance. There is a polyphony of ‘voices’ clamouring for attention. There is, of course, nothing absolutely novel in this. At one time, life-histories and similar documents of life were celebrated as a prime source of sociological data and insight, articulating the intersection between the personal and the social. The career or the life could thus be seen to capture some of the complex relationships between socialisation and social organisation, between process and social order, or between institutions and the person. Having for some time been eclipsed and all but excluded from the methodological canon, the biographical perspective has enjoyed a significant revival in recent years. There has been an upsurge of empirical, methodological and reflective writing on biographical approaches to social research. They have received fresh legitimation from a variety of contemporary standpoints — feminist, post-structuralist and postcolonialist among them. Indeed, the celebration of multiple ‘voices’ to be found in much of the literature parallels the multiplicity of epistemological ‘positions’ to be found in contemporary social research. The books under review — and many other in the same genre — reflect those different perspectives, illustrating at once the various opportunities and limitations of contemporary work in this area. In their diversity they also display the extent to which various sub-genres develop in mutual isolation, mirroring specific disciplinary, national and empirical preoccupations. Collectively they embody a number of unresolved tensions in the systematic exploration of social actors' lives, voices and identities.

Book Review: Studying Elites using Qualitative Methods. Rosanna Hertz and Jonathan B. Imber. Sage, London, 1995, 224 pp., £19.95, ISBN 0 8039 7037 4 (paperback)

Systems Research and Behavioral ScienceVolume 14, Issue 6 p. 430-431 Book Review Book Review: Studying Elites using Qualitative Methods. Rosanna Hertz and Jonathan B. Imber. Sage, London, 1995, 224 pp., £19.95, ISBN 0 8039 7037 4 (paperback) Brian White, Corresponding Author Brian White Lincoln School of Management, Lincoln University campus, Brayford Pool, Lincoln LN6 7TS, UKLincoln School of Management, Lincoln University campus, Brayford Pool, Lincoln LN6 7TS, UKSearch for more papers by this author Brian White, Corresponding Author Brian White Lincoln School of Management, Lincoln University campus, Brayford Pool, Lincoln LN6 7TS, UKLincoln School of Management, Lincoln University campus, Brayford Pool, Lincoln LN6 7TS, UKSearch for more papers by this author First published: 07 April 2000 https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1099-1743(199711/12)14:6<430::AID-SRES197>3.0.CO;2-HAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume14, Issue6Special Issue: Systems Thinking, Government Policy and Decision MakingNovember/December 1997Pages 430-431 RelatedInformation