照护中的性/别身体:边界的协商与挑战

Gender,Sexuality and the Body in Carework:Boundary Negotiation and the Challenges

照护作为一项亲密劳动,包含大量情感劳动以及身体工作。本文基于养老院的民族志研究,考察了围绕性/别身体的照护实践、情感经验和日常互动.一方面,身体的亲密接触往往造成强烈的羞耻和肮脏感,而护理员们通过多重划界策略在一定程度上实现了“性/别身体”与“工作身体”的分离,自发建立起照护的专业脚本和工作伦理另一方面,专业性的界线也可能在长期的互动中遭遇挑战和瓦解,这一过程伴随着厌恶、惊奇、愉快等复杂流变的情感,性/别与衰老、失能身体之间的复杂交织也形塑了护理员和老年住民之间的另类亲密性,有助于我们在当前主流的性与性别规范性论述之外拓展新的理解.

Carework,as a form of intimate labor,involves much emotional labor as well as bodywork.Based on ethnographic research in two nursing homes,this paper describes care practices,affective experiences,and daily interactions around the sexual/gendered bodies.Body work often violates the norms of the management of the body and raises shame and dirtiness.Through several strategies of boundary work,the care workers manage the boundary between“sex-ual/gendered body”and the“working body”,establishing their own professional scripts of caregiving.However,these boundaries can be challenged and dissolved in long-term daily interactions,accompanied by a flux of disgust,astonishment and joy.The intersections of sexuality,gender and aging,disability shape the intimacy between care workers and the elderly,expanding our understanding beyond the dominant normative discourses of gender and sexuality.