重構親密關係的法律敘事：法律扶助使用者之性別經驗探究

Reconstructing Intimate Relationships through Legal Narratives: A Study on the Gendered Experience of Legal Aid Applicants

系所名稱：性別教育研究所
學位別：碩士
畢業學年：111
指導教授：游美惠
本研究藉由親密關係紛爭的法扶使用者經驗，以階級與性別交織分析，探討紛爭歷程中主體如何透過多重敘事經驗來重構自身故事。基於法律敘事運動將「說故事」作為法學方法，本研究採質性研究法取徑，半結構深度訪談七位研究參與者，並基於研究發現提出未來相關政策之參考建議。
本研究從法扶使用者的經驗中發現，法律敘事並非籠罩或宰制當事人的故事，主體在紛爭歷程不斷被建構，敘事和經驗知識的累積提供了協商的空間。主要研究發現如下：（一）法扶使用者經濟弱勢的階級位置，造就多重資源近用的適格性，而多元社福資源及人際支援涉入的特徵成為法扶使用者進行校準的武器，發展出「法扶使用經驗知識」；（二）法扶作為「弱者的武器」，卻可能導致讓弱者「再次被噤聲」或「再次受傷」的非預期雙面效果；（三）法扶使用者展現出對親密關係、污名、權威進行協商的能動性，選擇性地打造盟友關係並發展自我效能，逐步拆解性別化、階級化的親密關係腳本，讓自身「生命困境」成為能夠回饋他人與社群的「弱者的武器」；（四）法扶使用者基於理性／感性劃分發展出「紛爭敘事」和「法律敘事」，兩者具交互關係，呈現公／私領域模糊化的現代性特徵。

This research analyzes the experience of applicants who have engaged in legal aid systems for disputes in intimate relationships, and on how they reconstruct their own discourse through the scope of gender-class intersectionality. By adopting the methodological approach of “storytelling” in legal narratology movement, this study consists of semi-structured interviews to seven participants, as well as insights for future policies that could be amended based on the findings of the study.
This research discovers that legal narratives are not overwhelming; rather, the subjectivity of the applicants has been constantly constructed throughout multiple narratives of the process. The main findings of this research are listed as follows: (1) The economically disadvantaged position of the legal-aid participants makes them access to multiple types of social welfare resources. Such characteristics of involving multiple resources and interpersonal support allows them develop their own “empirical knowledge of legal-aid resources”. (2) Legal aid may serve as a "weapon for the weak", yet might also create unintended effects of subjects being silenced or hurt once again. (3) Applicants demonstrate their agency to negotiate with relationship struggles, stigmas or authoritative discourses throughout their legal-aid process. These actions help them gradually deconstruct stereotyped intimate and gender roles, thus reconstructing their imagination of life. (4) Applicants engaging in legal-aid systems develop “dispute narratives” and “legal narratives” separately based on the division of sense and sensibility, both interact with each other that demonstrates the blur between public/private domain under the realm of modernity.