Drawing upon 62 participant-produced visual diaries and accompanying interview narratives, this article explores the significance of everyday body work for people in mid- to later life. Departing from previous work that has explored the intersections of gender and age in relation to a single embodied practice, this article highlights the salience of a myriad of bodily practices for the everyday ways that gender and ageing identities are constituted, specifically hair styling, beauty work, clothing, and dieting. We argue that women negotiate a gendered pressure to age well, which results in an in/visibility paradox, in which they are at one and the same time seen, but not seen. Consequently, we question whether women are thus forever ‘becoming’ – attempting to become embodied subjects, alongside subjecting to ‘becoming’ – aligning with normative discourses. The article examines the competing ways that ageing and gendered bodies are constructed, together with participants’ embodied resistance to negative normalising discourses.

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永远“成为”？协商日常生活中的性别和老龄化体现

本文利用 62 份参与者制作的视觉日记和随附的采访叙述，探讨了日常身体锻炼对中后期人们的重要性。与之前探索性别和年龄与单一具体实践的交叉点的工作不同，本文强调了无数身体实践在性别和衰老身份构成的日常方式中的显着性，特别是发型设计、美容工作、服装和节食。我们认为，女性会协商一种性别压力以适应年龄增长，这导致了不可见/不可见悖论，即她们同时被看到，但未被看到。因此，我们质疑女性是否因此永远“成为”——试图成为具身的主体，除了服从“成为”——与规范性话语保持一致。这篇文章考察了衰老和性别化身体的构建方式，以及参与者对负面规范化话语的具体抵制。