The COVID-19 outbreak has prompted the growing recognition and reevaluation of vulnerability theory as proposed by Fineman (2008), which emphasizes the central role of the state in protecting citizens from their ‘vulnerability’ by providing their access to ‘resilience’. It challenges the traditional construction of ‘vulnerability’ and ‘resilience’ in liberal discourse, which has typically emphasized individual capabilities over community roles. To investigate the impact of this recognition on the construction of ‘vulnerability’ and ‘resilience’ in liberal feminism discourse during COVID-19, discourse analysis was conducted among nine COVID-19-related briefings from the Fawcett Society website. Two main changes in liberal feminism discourse were revealed in this research. First, there has been a shift from a focus on self-resilience among women's groups to an acknowledgement of their weakened resilience in front of COVID-19. Second, liberal feminists delve into the passive characteristic of ‘vulnerability’ during COVID-19, recognizing the susceptibility of women's groups to their inner mental issues. The discourse constructed by liberal feminists during COVID-19, as evidenced by the collected briefings from the Fawcett Society website, also reveals the ‘hidden social inequality’ that existed in the long-standing undervaluation of socially reproductive workers, which has been exposed by the pandemic and necessary the need for increased social recognition of their role in maintaining daily social functions.

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重新概念化 COVID-19 大流行期间自由女权主义话语中的韧性和脆弱性

COVID-19 的爆发促使人们越来越多地认识和重新评估 Fineman (2008) 提出的脆弱性理论，该理论强调国家在通过为公民提供“弹性”的机会来保护公民免受“脆弱性”影响方面发挥着核心作用。它挑战了自由主义话语中对“脆弱性”和“弹性”的传统建构，这种观念通常强调个人能力而不是社区角色。为了调查这种认识对 COVID-19 期间自由女权主义话语中“脆弱性”和“弹性”构建的影响，对福西特协会网站上的 9 个与 COVID-19 相关的简报进行了话语分析。这项研究揭示了自由女权主义话语的两个主要变化。首先，人们从关注妇女团体的自我恢复能力转向承认她们的恢复能力在 COVID-19 面前被削弱。其次，自由女权主义者深入研究了COVID-19期间“脆弱性”的被动特征，认识到女性群体对其内在心理问题的敏感性。从福西特协会网站收集的简报可以看出，自由主义女权主义者在COVID-19期间构建的话语也揭示了长期低估社会再生产工人中存在的“隐藏的社会不平等”，这一点已被大流行期间，有必要提高社会对他们在维持日常社会功能方面的作用的认识。