個人衛生用品中介的身體污染、淨化與領域化
Other Title
The Body Pollution, Purification, and Territorialization Mediated by Personal Sanitary Objects
Journal
人文社會學報
Journal Issue
17
Start Page
75
End Page
111
Date Issued
2017-07
Author(s)
何函育
Abstract
污染與淨化涉及身體的劃界和領域化。衛生現代性崛起後，淨化型科技物對身體污染的定義、中介與轉移效果日益顯著。本文以個人衛生清潔用品，特別是衛生紙和衛生棉為例，討論科技物與身體領域化的關聯，指出：(1)通過排泄體液的清除、轉移和掩蓋，科技物中介了「生物身體」的邊界管理與領域維持；(2)社會情境中玷汙、厭棄、羞恥與風險的象徵秩序，激發「社會身體」擴張、劃界或撤守的張力；衛生用品是巡守邊境的利器，也可能是污名符號；(3)環境主義影響下，身體通過環保化、回收再生的衛生清潔用品，重建與自然的連結，彰顯「生態身體」的跨域意識，肯定了混種身體。最後，作者主張我們必須考察身體領域化的物質政治與倫理。
Contamination and purification involves the demarcation and territorialization of bodies. With the rise of hygiene modernity, technological objects concerning purification have increasingly affected how the bodily contamination is defined, mediated and transferred. This article discusses technological objects in relation to the territorialization of the body based on the example of personal hygiene products, particularly tissue paper and sanitary napkin. It is argued that (1) technological objects mediate the ＂biological body＂ in its boundary management and territory maintenance through the elimination, transference and concealment of excreted body fluids; (2) the symbolic order causing stigma, abjection, shamefulness and risks in specific social contexts also amplify the tension of ＂social body＂ in its expansion, demarcation, and retreat. Hygiene products are therefore weapons for defending the boundary but might also be the symbol of stigma; (3) given environmentalism, the body reconstructs its connection with nature as the hygiene products are recycled and labeled more environmental friendly, which exemplifies a cross-boundary notion highlighting the ＂environmental body＂ and which also confirms a hybrid body. The author concludes that we should consider the material politics and ethics inherent in the territorialization of the body.
Subjects
潔淨
衛生
邊界
科技物
環境主義
cleanness
hygiene
boundary
technological object
environmentalism
Type
journal article