ABSTRACT Many studies on the lives of female workers have shown the roles and statuses of women are influenced by their workplaces, which can be relatively gendered, such that female workers are confronted with various job challenges and have to come up with their own gender strategies to survive. However, these studies mainly focus on formal workplaces where female workers have social and economic power to some extent, which is significantly different from the situation in the tourism industry for front-line female workers who do not have any power. Through a spatial lens, this article focuses on female employees’ working characteristics and gender strategies in the tourism industry. Yangshuo West Street is selected to be the study site, as informal female tour guides in public spaces are very common there. By using qualitative methods including interviews and observations, this research indicates that female workers take advantage of various gender strategies to survive. These strategies include wearing close-fitting clothes to make prominent their feminine characteristics, developing supportive social networks with surrounding entrepreneurs, abiding by silence rules among peers and mediating with city inspectors. They endow a gendered nature with public spaces, where they struggle for survival and employment benefits by using gendered strategies.

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工作中的性别策略：阳朔西街的非正式女性导游

摘要关于女工生活的许多研究表明，妇女的角色和地位受其工作场所的影响，而工作场所可能是相对性别的，因此女工面临着各种工作挑战，必须提出自己的性别战略才能生存。但是，这些研究主要集中于正式的工作场所，在这些工作场所中，女工具有一定程度的社会和经济权力，这与旅游业中没有任何权力的一线女工的情况大不相同。本文从空间角度着眼于旅游业中女雇员的工作特征和性别策略。选择阳朔西街作为学习地点，因为在公共场所非正式的女性导游在那里很常见。通过使用包括访谈和观察在内的定性方法，该研究表明女工利用各种性别策略来生存。这些策略包括穿上合身的衣服以彰显其女性特质，与周围的企业家建立支持性的社交网络，遵守同行之间的沉默规则以及与城市检查员进行调解。他们在公共场所赋予了性别特征，他们在其中通过采用性别战略来争取生存和就业利益。遵守同伴之间的沉默规则，并与市检查员进行调解。他们在公共场所赋予了性别特征，他们在其中通过采用性别战略来争取生存和就业利益。遵守同伴之间的沉默规则，并与市检查员进行调解。他们在公共场所赋予了性别特征，他们在其中通过采用性别战略来争取生存和就业利益。