This article examines how a particular class of material objects—antidepressants—circulate in women’s social, cultural and intimate lifeworlds. Following the action of antidepressants in their encounters with bodies and brains by way of the agencies they express and the specific work they perform reveals much of the social, affective and material gendering of depression, along with the everyday activities by which this gendering is resisted. Drawing on data from a qualitative research project, we examine how women conceptualise their brains as needing ‘work’ through antidepressants, and then consider the particular kinds of ‘work’ that these objects perform. In instances where they refuse antidepressant medication, women co-constitute antidepressants as objects to be resisted and objects that resist, reframing in the process relationships between corporeality, diagnosis and pharmaceutical matter. The ‘female’ brain emerges in our study as a potent site for the gendering of depression as antidepressants become entangled in the social, material and affective dynamics of women’s everyday lives.

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女性生活世界中的抗抑郁药：女权主义唯物主义遭遇

本文研究了一类特殊的物质对象——抗抑郁药——如何在女性的社会、文化和亲密生活世界中流通。在抗抑郁药通过他们表达的机构和他们执行的具体工作与身体和大脑相遇时的作用之后，揭示了抑郁症的许多社会、情感和物质性别化，以及抵抗这种性别化的日常活动。利用来自定性研究项目的数据，我们研究了女性如何通过抗抑郁药将她们的大脑概念化为需要“工作”，然后考虑这些对象执行的特定类型的“工作”。在她们拒绝抗抑郁药物的情况下，女性共同构成抗抑郁药作为要抵抗的对象和抵抗的对象，重构身体、诊断和药物物质之间的过程关系。在我们的研究中，随着抗抑郁药与女性日常生活的社会、物质和情感动态纠缠在一起，“女性”大脑成为抑郁症性别化的有力场所。