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This special section of Men and Masculinities speaks of gender, methodology, and anthropology. It is designed to open an interdisciplinary debate about crucial issues in social sciences and gender studies. Building on anthropologists’ experiences, it takes ethnography as an entry point. For some time, feminist-inspired literature on gender and the fieldwork process has invited us to be aware of our own gender performances and sex ideologies in the field, as well as those of our interlocutors, to better understand the production of anthropological knowledge, and therefore to write better ethnographies (Bell, Caplan, and Karim 1993; Golde 1970; Scheper-Hughes 1983; Whitehead and Conaway 1986; Kulick and Wilson 1995). As Roger Keesing cogently warned us, anthropologists should avoid conflating the “gender politics of a people studied anthropologically [...] with the gender politics of their ethnographer …