Discovering the Social Organization of Perinatal Care for Women Living with HIV: Reflections from a Novice Institutional Ethnographer

This chapter is a critical reflection about my journey of coming to know and do institutional ethnography as a doctoral researcher. I offer some ideas about my experience conducting an institutional ethnography beginning from the standpoint of mothers living with HIV and connect my decisions to Dorothy Smith’s work, the tenets of a sociology for people, and feminist knowledges. The chapter includes three sections: (i) the importance of …