Studies have illustrated the role of the body as an improvable project that constitutes an important part of an individual’s self-identity and social life. For marginalized groups, the body project proves to be meaningful in gaining social respectability and negotiating stigma and visibility. While literature on rehabilitation and recovery has highlighted identity processes and the remake of moral subjectivities, current sociological and feminist literature has focused on embodied displays during recovery, but only in limited ways. Carefully researching dental care—which holds cultural meanings of beauty and social class, as well as medical meanings—reveals not only the stigmatized characters of embodied aspects, but also the ways embodied transformation is imagined and fantasized, as well as its boundaries. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted at a rehabilitation hostel for women exiting sex work, I consider how the women embodied the negotiation of their identities on a normal-abnormal axis through the ways in which they experienced their lack of teeth due to drug abuse. First, dental restoration is imagined as the embodiment of normalcy: women view caring for their appearance and dental repair as important steps towards rejoining mainstream society. Second, dental restoration is revealed as meaningful both in real life—for the job market and one’s financial well-being—and as a fantasy, where it is imagined as an enhancer of a person’s potential to achieve a higher degree of beauty and success. At the same time, some women identify the boundaries of this transformation: dental restoration is recognized as temporary and removable, which subverts the imagined promise of transformation and calls into question the distinction between the pre- and post-rehabilitated body.

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体现常态：女性退出性工作和转型的边界

研究表明，身体是一个可以改进的项目，它是个人自我认同和社会生活的重要组成部分。对于边缘化群体，身体项目在获得社会尊重和谈判污名和知名度方面被证明是有意义的。虽然关于康复和恢复的文献强调了身份过程和道德主体的重塑，但当前的社会学和女权主义文学关注恢复过程中的具体表现，但仅限于有限的方式。仔细研究牙齿护理——它具有美丽和社会阶层的文化意义，以及医学意义——不仅揭示了体现方面的污名化特征，而且揭示了体现转化的想象和幻想的方式，以及它的边界。借鉴在一家为退出性工作的女性提供的康复宿舍进行的民族志实地考察，我考虑了女性如何通过她们因吸毒而失去牙齿的方式在正常-异常轴上体现她们的身份协商。首先，牙齿修复被想象为常态的体现：女性将照顾自己的外表和牙齿修复视为重新加入主流社会的重要步骤。其次，牙齿修复在现实生活中（对于就业市场和一个人的财务状况）和幻想中都被证明是有意义的，在幻想中，它被想象为增强一个人实现更高程度的美丽和成功的潜力。同时，也有女性认清了这种转变的界限：牙齿修复被认为是暂时的、可拆卸的，