Writing about sexism and sexual harassment in the field is still generally discouraged outside gender ethnography, despite a growing gender reflexivity in research. This is mostly due to certain established norms and expectations about ethnographic work that tend to ignore how these issues contribute to women’s fieldwork experiences and subsequent ethnographic accounts. In this article, we go against this tendency by setting out our gendered experiences as female ethnographers conducting research on labor mobility in the male-dominated construction industry among Brazilian internal migrants in Rio de Janeiro and among Polish migrant workers in Europe. We foreground how gendered dynamics affected our fieldwork experience and how they generated a degree of self-doubt and self-blame about our methodological choices. Our hope is that writing about our experiences will help female ethnographers to better prepare for and consider the different kinds of sexism that will inevitably shape their knowledge production.

尽管研究中的性别反身性越来越强，但在性别民族志之外，仍然普遍不鼓励在该领域撰写有关性别歧视和性骚扰的文章。这主要是由于某些关于民族志工作的既定规范和期望往往忽视这些问题如何影响女性的田野工作经验和随后的民族志帐户。在本文中，我们通过阐述女性民族志学者在里约热内卢的巴西国内移民和欧洲的波兰移民工人中男性主导的建筑行业的劳动力流动性研究，来反对这一趋势。我们将性别动态如何影响我们的田野工作经验以及它们如何对我们的方法选择产生一定程度的自我怀疑和自责。