Kathy Davis is Senior Research Fellow in the Sociology Department at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She is the author of Reshaping the Female Body, Dubious Equalities and Embodied Differences, The Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves: How Feminism Travels Across Borders and Dancing Tango: Passionate Encounters in a Globalizing World.

Janice Irvine is Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA. She is the author of Marginal People in Deviant Places: Ethnography, Difference, and the Challenge to Scientific Racism; Talk About Sex: The Battles Over Sex Education in the United States, and Disorders of Desire: Sex and Gender in Modern American Sexology.

Introduction Part I: Silences 1. The Silence of Gold: Feelings about Money in Field Relationships 2. Keeping Quiet: Doing Research When You're Woman, Feminist & Black 3. Navigating Race - Expectations Before, During, and After Research 4. Do Lawsuits Silence? Legal Harassment in Corporate Crime Research Part II: Neglected Feelings 5. "Bad Feelings": Reflections on Research, Disciplines, and Critical Methodologies 6. The Shamefulness of Boredom: Are Good Researchers Allowed to be Bored? 7. In Praise of Suspicion 8. The Botanical Sublime: Thinking and Feeling with Plants Part III: Blind-spots 9. Coming to Terms with the Present: Difficult Feelings in Post-Shoah Germany 10. 'We Will Sue You If You Dare Publish Our Pictures!': Discovering Myopia in a Feminist, Participatory Photo-voice Project with Sex Workers in Ethiopia 11. From Myopia to Clarity: Missed Opportunities and New Directions in an International Research Setting Concluding Conversations Studying Those Who Hate Us: Fear, Anxiety and Blind-spots in Researching the Right