Gender, Identity and Discomfort: Negotiating Self and Context in the Field

Addressing the issue of gender in field research was an introspective journey for me. My first thought upon receiving the invitation to submit an abstract for the book was: ‘Well, I’ve never touched this topic in my research.’ At the same time, I was reviewing a chapter that used autoethnography to analyse the influence of standpoint in research construction (Benjamin et al., 2019). The chapter focused primarily on race and class, and despite the female gender of two of the three authors, gender was only briefly mentioned. This lack of discussion was a clear expression of gender as an invisible