How much vulnerable am I? Story of a gender-centered ethnography and its 'maker'

Written for the 2021 Conference on Ethnography and Qualitative Research (Trento, Italy, June 9-12, 2021), this paper presents the path of a gender-centered Institutional Ethnography (Smith 2005), from the writing of the proposal up to the conduction of the fieldwork, and the position and relations of the researcher with the field of study/fieldwork and with the gatekeepers and the participants.

Data, results, and reflections come from the research study Study on TRansition and Exclusion in Society of Single-Mums (STRESS-Mums) an Institutional Ethnography conducted in four countries and funded by the EU.