Female dependents, individual customers and promiscuous digital personas: The multiple governing of women through the Australian social security couple rule

IF 2.3 2区社会学 Q1 SOCIAL ISSUES

Critical Social Policy Pub Date : 2022-05-03 DOI:10.1177/02610183221089265

Lyndal Sleep

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Abstract

This article argues that women social security recipients are governed by multiple political rationalities through the couple rule in Australia. It focuses on different periods of development of the couple rule – its inception within women's only payments of the 1970s, it's ‘de-gendering’ with the Social Security Act 1991 (Cth), and its current intersections with the digitisation of social security administration. It shows that different governing tools emerged across time to govern women through their relationships, but did not replace each other. Rather, the result is that women are now multiply governed by these seemingly contradictory rationalities. Women are governed as dependents by welfarist rationality through expectations of frugality and fidelity to a paternal state. They are governed as independent individuals through neo-liberal political rationalisations of ‘choice’. In addition, through algorithmic governmentality, women are constituted and reconstituted into a possibly promiscuous digital persona using information which is abstracted from women's daily lives. Through each of these modes of governing, the patriarchal assumptions of the couple rule endure.

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女性家属，个人客户和滥交的数字角色:通过澳大利亚社会保障夫妇规则对女性的多重治理

本文认为，通过澳大利亚的夫妻规则，女性社会保障领取者受到多重政治理性的支配。它关注的是夫妻规则的不同发展时期——它始于20世纪70年代的女性专属支付，与1991年《社会保障法》（Cth）“去性别化”，以及目前与社会保障管理数字化的交叉点。研究表明，随着时间的推移，不同的治理工具出现了，通过女性关系来治理她们，但并没有相互取代。相反，结果是，女性现在被这些看似矛盾的理性所多重支配。妇女作为受抚养人受到福利主义理性的支配，这种理性是通过对节俭和忠于父亲国家的期望而实现的。他们作为独立的个体通过“选择”的新自由主义政治理性化来治理。此外，通过算法治理，利用从女性日常生活中提取的信息，将女性塑造成一个可能滥交的数字人物。通过每一种治理模式，夫妻统治的父权制假设都会持续下去。

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期刊介绍： Critical Social Policy provides a forum for advocacy, analysis and debate on social policy issues. We publish critical perspectives which: ·acknowledge and reflect upon differences in political, economic, social and cultural power and upon the diversity of cultures and movements shaping social policy; ·re-think conventional approaches to securing rights, meeting needs and challenging inequalities and injustices; ·include perspectives, analyses and concerns of people and groups whose voices are unheard or underrepresented in policy-making; ·reflect lived experiences of users of existing benefits and services;