Can we speak of a feminine approach to caring for the body? If there is such an approach, how does culture influence or even construct it? Do we need a new culture of care in the medical field? What can a woman’s contribution be to transform culture in this area? In this analysis, I take the human body and its way of being in the world as my starting point, so that we could speak, using Sartrean terminology, of a ‘psychical body’. Then I consider the symbiosis that occurs during pregnancy, and I speak of it as a ‘relational modality’, that gives an ‘existential orientation’ to women, whether or not they are biological mothers. Finally, I show some implications of this relational modality for the culture of care.

我们可以谈论一种女性化的身体护理方法吗？如果有这样的方法，文化如何影响甚至构建它？我们是否需要在医疗领域建立一种新的护理文化？女性对改变这一领域的文化有何贡献？在这个分析中，我以人体及其在世界中的存在方式作为我的出发点，这样我们就可以用萨特的术语来谈论“精神体”。然后我考虑怀孕期间发生的共生关系，我把它称为“关系模式”，它给女性一个“存在取向”，无论她们是否是亲生母亲。最后，我展示了这种关系模式对护理文化的一些影响。