再性别化还是去性别化:智能家居技术如何重塑家庭性别分工?

万旭婷, 武靖宇

国际新闻界 ›› 2026, Vol. 48 ›› Issue (2) : 47-69.

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国际新闻界 ›› 2026, Vol. 48 ›› Issue (2) : 47-69.
本期话题/数智技术与家庭传播研究

再性别化还是去性别化:智能家居技术如何重塑家庭性别分工?

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Regendering or Degendering: How Do Smart Home Technologies Reshape the Gendered Division of Labor in the Household?

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智能家居技术正在重塑家庭场域的劳动图景,是理解当代技术与性别关系互动的一个重要切入点。本文通过家庭参观和深度访谈的方法,结合性别气质理论,揭示数字化转型中的家务劳动是否以及如何成为性别分工重构的试验场?研究发现,智能家居的引入使家务呈现“去技能化”“链路化”与“分布式劳动”等新特征,过去被视为繁重与日常性的劳动转化为可管理的任务和触发式劳动,并为家务责任再分配提供了可能。在此基础上,智能家居亦成为性别表演与气质再塑造的场域:女性可以通过家务转让与技术接管突破既有规训;男性则在延续技术权威的同时,呈现出向亲密关怀的多元气质延展。进而,本文指出中国家庭的智能家居使用动摇了“技术男性化—家务女性化”二元框架,提出家务分工的“去性别化”趋势,凸显了性别平等诉求嵌入日常实践的过程。

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Smart home technology is reshaping the landscape of domestic labor within the household realm and constitutes a crucial point of entry for understanding the interplay between contemporary technology and gender relations. This paper employs qualitative methods of home visits and in-depth interviews, in conjunction with the theory of gender performativity, to explore whether and how domestic labor in the digital transformation has become a testing ground for the reconfiguration of gender division of labor. The findings reveal that the introduction of smart home devices endows housework with new features of de-skilling, chain-linking, and distributed labor. What was once perceived as burdensome routine is transformed into manageable tasks and triggered labor, while also creating new possibilities for redistributing responsibilities among family members. At the same time, smart homes serve as arenas for gender performance and the reshaping of dispositions: women may resist conventional disciplining through household delegation or “technological outsourcing,” whereas men, while retaining technological authority, also extend their masculinities toward forms of intimate care. In this light, the use of smart home technologies in Chinese households destabilizes the binary framework of “technological masculinity” versus “domestic femininity,” pointing to a conditional trend of de-gendering in household divisions of labor and highlighting the embeddedness of gender justice claims in everyday practices.

关键词

智能家居 / 技术性别化 / 性别角色 / 流动性气质 / 非人劳动者

Key words

Smart home / technological gendering / gender roles / fluid gender dispositions / non-human laborers

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万旭婷, 武靖宇. 再性别化还是去性别化:智能家居技术如何重塑家庭性别分工?[J]. 国际新闻界. 2026, 48(2): 47-69
WAN Xuting, WU Jingyu. Regendering or Degendering: How Do Smart Home Technologies Reshape the Gendered Division of Labor in the Household?[J]. Chinese Journal of Journalism & Communication. 2026, 48(2): 47-69

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山东省社会科学规划妇女理论与家庭建设研究专项资金(25CFNJ11)

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