ABSTRACT This article analyses the legal temporalities imposed by Australia’s parental leave system with reference to Pierre Bourdieu’s approach to temporal embodiment. It focuses on the temporal issues surrounding Australia’s parental leave pay scheme and demonstrates the legislation’s inadequacies in incorporating women’s reflexive temporal experiences of maternity into legal and temporal boundary making. This article identifies the problematic issues in the existing parental leave pay legislation as ones based on time and argues that there is one dominant conception of time in the legislation, neo-maternalistic productivism. The ideology of neo-maternalistic productivism advances a hegemonic time that structures women’s role as subservient to the productivistic regime of Australia’s neoliberal capitalism. I suggest an alternative temporal model drawing on a Bourdieusian analysis of care-based temporalities. This expansive approach to time shifts standards to accept that lived experiences of time often do not adhere to the ideal worker’s waged work trajectory.

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澳大利亚基于护理的时间和育儿假

摘要 本文参照皮埃尔·布迪厄的时间体现方法，分析了澳大利亚育儿假制度强加的法定时间性。它侧重于围绕澳大利亚育儿假薪酬计划的时间问题，并表明该立法在将妇女对产假的反思性时间体验纳入法律和时间界限制定方面的不足之处。本文将现行育儿假薪酬立法中的问题归结为基于时间的问题，并认为立法中存在一个占主导地位的时间概念，即新母性生产主义。新母性生产主义的意识形态推进了一个霸权时代，将女性的角色构建为从属于澳大利亚新自由资本主义的生产主义政权。我建议使用基于护理的时间性的 Bourdieusian 分析的替代时间模型。这种广泛的时间转移方法使标准接受了时间的生活体验通常不符合理想工人的有薪工作轨迹。