Women who step into the spotlight may be burdened with managing their sexualised bodies, unlike men. This is true also in stand-up comedy, where more women than ever are entering the field. Investigating this unequally distributed body work, we use Sara Ahmed’s idea of the wilful subject to spot naturalised beliefs of women as unfunny who ‘will too much’. We do so through a qualitative study carried out with 26 professionals. We contribute by showing how ‘informal’ organisational body work, which comprises the purposeful efforts workers undertake on their and others’ bodies as part of informal role demands, is underpinned by diversity-related power dynamics. Anticipating how the burden of such ‘work’ does not fall equally on the shoulders of everyone is key in imagining more egalitarian futures of work. We demonstrate the embodied and political merits of wilfulness as an analytical tool focusing on the historically persistent labelling of women as wilful, a difficult-to-spot inequality, while taking into account how such wilfulness charges are mobilised by the target. Inspired by queering and cripping, we introduce the term ‘hagging’ to indicate women reclaiming positions of power and reappropriating their sexual objectification in male-dominated sexist environments.

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体现任性：通过单口喜剧中的女性案例调查非正式组织机构工作的不平等权力动态


与男性不同，走到聚光灯下的女性可能背负着管理自己性化身体的负担。在单口喜剧中也是如此，进入该领域的女性比以往任何时候都多。在调查这种分布不均的身体作品时，我们使用萨拉·艾哈迈德（Sara Ahmed）的“故意主体”的概念来发现女性的自然化信念是“意志过多”的无趣之处。我们通过与 26 名专业人士进行的定性研究来做到这一点。我们通过展示“非正式”组织机构工作（包括员工作为非正式角色需求的一部分对自己和他人的身体进行的有目的的努力）如何以与多样性相关的权力动态为基础。预测此类“工作”的负担不会平等地落在每个人的肩上，这是设想更加平等的工作未来的关键。我们展示了作为分析工具的故意的体现和政治价值，重点关注历史上一直将女性贴上故意的标签，这是一种难以发现的不平等，同时考虑到目标如何动员这种故意指控。受到酷儿和残废的启发，我们引入了“hagging”一词，以表示女性在男性主导的性别歧视环境中重新夺回权力地位并重新挪用她们的性客体化。