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'Knowing me, knowing you': disability support worker as emotional mediator?
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posted on 2023-05-18, 19:51 authored by Susan BanksThe complexities of dating are exacerbated when couples’ getting together happens with the support of another person – the disability support worker. This paper explores the experience of Vic, a worker whose role it was to drive a couple to their dinner or movie dates. Vic’s narrative prompts consideration of how such workers position themselves within the sometimes conflicting role demands of enabler, risk manager, and mentor, negotiating the emotion work and relationship mediation roles they may be expected to perform. His narrative reveals the event as a performance of normalization, surveillance, management and othering, emotion work and feeling rules, and recognition.
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Publication title
SexualitiesVolume
19Issue
5-6Pagination
659-676ISSN
1363-4607Department/School
School of Social SciencesPublisher
Sage PublicationsPlace of publication
United KingdomRights statement
Copyright 2016 The AuthorsRepository Status
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