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“我知道我不必从中痊愈”:女性大学工作者关于“办公室家务”的集体写作作为建立集体关怀、疗愈和希望的空间

“I know I'm not going to have to heal from this”: Women university workers' collective writing on “office housework” as a space for building collective care, healing, and hope

Gender, Work and Organization · 2024
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中文导读

五位专业服务人员和三位学术女性工作者通过集体写作,探讨办公室家务中的性别隐形问题,以此建立联系、疗愈和抵抗,并呼吁重新认识和公平分配这一不可或缺的工作。

Abstract

Abstract How can we, as women university workers, assert collective writing as a form of resistance to embody our collective and individual struggles and convert them into words? We are a collective of five professional service and three academic women workers who came together to answer this question through writing about our performance of office housework and the gendered invisibility we experienced. We share our collective writing practices as a methodology to create connections and healing between workers divided along neoliberal and patriarchal university structures. Our work offers feminist epistemic resistance through the intentional joining of women university workers as co‐producers of knowledge, following the tradition of feminist consciousness‐raising groups. Our analysis problematizes the individualization of office housework. It illustrates how saying “no” individualistically is often elusive, because doing so displaces the work onto colleagues with less structural power; nor enough if we are to advance the goal of collectively reimagining how this crucial, yet invisible work can be redistributed more equally amongst all workers. Our collective writing affirms the need for office housework to be recognized and revalued as important and indispensable work that sustains the functioning of our higher education institutions, especially in times of uncertainty and crisis.

性别研究高等教育女性主义组织行为