Defending Motherhood: Morality, Responsibility, and Double Binds in Feeding Children
Defending Motherhood: Morality, Responsibility, and Double Binds in Feeding Children
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DOI：
10.1111/jomf.12465
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发表时间：
2018-04-01
影响因子：
6
通讯作者：
Bowen, Sarah
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作者：
Elliott, Sinikka;Bowen, Sarah
强化育儿的意识形态设置了一个很高的标准，并与坏母亲的幽灵相抵触。贫穷的母亲和有色人种的母亲尤其容易被贴上坏母亲的标签。通过138次深度访谈和人种学观察，本研究分析了贫困母亲在理解和捍卫自己的喂养和孩子的体型时使用的话语和人际策略。食物信仰和习俗反映并加剧了社会不平等，因此是一个典型的案例，可以用来研究密集育儿，它与日益严重的不平等的关系，以及个人如何被要求对此负责。调查结果表明，母亲在满足喂养、健康和体重方面的强烈母亲期望时，存在交叉的不平等、意义和矛盾。根据关于喂养和体重的道德框架，母亲被监视的经历，以及她们在喂养孩子时遇到的双重束缚，母亲们实践了作者所说的防御性育儿。
The ideology of intensive mothering sets a high bar and is framed against the specter of the bad mother. Poor mothers and mothers of color are especially at risk of being labeled bad mothers. Drawing on 138 in-depth interviews and ethnographic observations, this study analyzes the discursive and interpersonal strategies poor mothers use to make sense of and defend their feeding and children's body sizes. Food beliefs and practices reflect and reinforce social inequalities and thus represent an exemplary case in which to examine intensive mothering, its ties to growing inequality, and how individuals are called to account for it. Findings demonstrate intersecting inequalities, meanings, and contradictions in mothers' accounts of meeting intensive mothering expectations around feeding, health, and weight. In light of moral framings around feeding and weight, mothers' experiences of surveillance, and the double binds they encounter in feeding children, mothers practice what the authors term defensive mothering.