This article engages with Adriana Cavarero's framing of sexual difference, specifically in terms of how this displaces “bodies that queer” (Volcano 2013). For Cavarero, the narratable self is inescapably relational and characterized by vulnerability, which is how ethics arises in the form of a decision between caring and wounding. At the same time, Cavarero's deconstructive method of appropriating stereotypes restricts the scope of sexual difference to dimorphism. In examining the implications of this, I build on the work of Michel Foucault and Judith Butler by looking to the intersexed life of Adélaïde Herculine Barbin, whose suicide in 1868 at the age of twenty‐nine was precipitated not through malice or cruelty, but through concerted care. This mode of care is anchored in the apparent self‐evidence of how we see and how we think with and through narratives that sediment in orders of power/knowledge. While agreeing with Cavarero's critique of the autonomous “I,” the article nevertheless argues for authorial audacity—the courage to name oneself—as a way of subverting asymmetrical power relations, including those that make it possible to inadvertently generate suffering through care.

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思考与（和反对）阿德里亚娜·卡瓦罗（Adriana Cavarero）的性别差异：关于护理的伦理和政治

本文与阿德里亚娜·卡瓦雷罗（Adriana Cavarero）对性差异的构想有关，特别是在这种方式如何取代“酷儿”身上（Volcano 2013）。对于卡瓦列罗而言，难以言表的自我不可避免地具有关系性，并具有脆弱性，这就是伦理如何以关怀与伤害之间的决定形式产生的。同时，卡瓦列罗（Cavarero）运用定型观念的解构方法将性别差异的范围限制为双态。在考察这一涵义时，我以米歇尔·福柯（Michel Foucault）和朱迪思·巴特勒（Judith Butler）的工作为基础，研究了阿德莱德·埃尔库琳·巴宾（AdélaïdeHerculine Barbin）的两性生活，他在1868年29岁时自杀的原因不是恶意或残酷，而是共同护理。这种照护模式基于明显的自我证据，即我们如何看待和如何思考，以及通过叙事以力量/知识的顺序沉淀下来的叙事。尽管同意卡瓦列罗（Cavarero）对自治“ I”的批评，但该文章还是主张作者敢于敢为人勇敢（以自己的名字命名），以此来颠覆不对称的权力关系，包括那些有可能无意间因护理而遭受痛苦的关系。