“You go back to zero”: Embodied precarity, endo time and employment
基于21位英国女性的访谈和日记数据，研究子宫内膜异位症如何与有偿工作共存，揭示这种被误解的妇科疾病如何使不稳定工作看似更合适，却陷入缺乏保障的双重困境，并提出了“endo time”概念。
Drawing on interview and diary data from 21 women in the UK, this paper focuses on how endometriosis, a long-term gynecological condition, is lived and navigated alongside paid employment. It discusses the intersectional dynamics of gender, disability, race, and ethnicity to explore how certain bodies are precarized across space and time by the rigid temporal organization of work. We advance existing discussions of precarity by showing how, in the absence of supportive interventions, the embodied precarity of a widely misunderstood and gendered condition with highly variable symptoms can paradoxically make precarious work more suitable because of its purported flexibility. But this creates a double bind of its own, given the well-documented insecurity and lack of clear employment rights which characterizes such work. Theoretically, we develop the concept of endo time as a non-normative temporality located within crip time to highlight its radical divergence from normative ableist and androcentric time and neoliberal labor logic for those working with endometriosis. Endo time advances feminist theorizing of precarity by shedding additional light on bodies at and not at work, those which can and cannot work regularly and consistently; long-term gendered health conditions; and the discursive representation of women’s bodies as leaky, unpredictable, and fragile.