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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 Banks
The 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

Sexualities

Volume

19

Issue

5-6

Pagination

659-676

ISSN

1363-4607

Department/School

School of Social Sciences

Publisher

Sage Publications

Place of publication

United Kingdom

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Copyright 2016 The Authors

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  • Restricted

Socio-economic Objectives

Evaluation of health and support services not elsewhere classified

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