ABSTRACT
This chapter expands on an essay I wrote for the 2010 edition of this Routledge Handbook. More than ten years have passed since then and this update was prepared in the summer of 2022, looking back on the author’s professional journey. In retrospect, two lessons are identified about what it means to conduct emotionally engaged research. First, in my case, this meant conducting and publishing about sexual violence and other sexualised engagements in the context of family life in Mexico, while doing my best as a feminist public scholar to join collective efforts to promote social justice and address gender inequality concerns in Mexico, the country in which I was born and raised. Second, I identify the lessons that helped me grow as a feminist scholar and that provided a turning point in my own personal development.
