This paper takes the co-construction of age and gender over the course of a life as a starting point and expands this perspective by looking at the intersectional interplay of institutional, spatial, and bodily materiality in the setting of a nursing home. Nursing homes are often perceived as a female space, both socially and physically. Moreover, they are institutional spaces that are primarily oriented towards the deficits of aging and bodies in need of care so that age and aging are reproduced in a narrative of decline, and gender hardly has space to be constructed. This interweaving of institutional spaces, bodies in need of care, and gender poses the question: How are age and gender produced through the space(s) of the nursing home and its materiality, and vice versa? On this basis, the influence on the construction of masculinities in the context of materialism is discussed.

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照顾疗养院中的男性气质——对制度、空间、性别和肉体物质性交叉性的物质视角

本文以生命过程中年龄和性别的共同建构为出发点，并通过考察疗养院环境中制度、空间和身体物质性的交叉相互作用来扩展这一视角。无论是在社交上还是在身体上，疗养院通常被视为女性空间。而且，它们是主要面向老龄化缺陷和需要照顾的身体的制度空间，因此年龄和老龄化在衰落的叙事中被再现，而性别几乎没有构建的空间。机构空间、需要护理的身体和性别的交织提出了一个问题：年龄和性别是如何通过疗养院的空间及其物质性产生的，反之亦然？在此基础上，探讨了唯物主义背景下对男性气质建构的影响。