Feeding the "organic child': Mothering through ethical consumption
Feeding the "organic child': Mothering through ethical consumption
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DOI：
10.1177/1469540513480162
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发表时间：
2013-07-01
影响因子：
2.6
通讯作者：
MacKendrick, Norah
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作者：
Cairns, Kate;Johnston, Josee;MacKendrick, Norah
在本文中，我们通过关注有机儿童的理想来研究道德食品话语的性别化。通过定性焦点小组和对不同阶层背景的加拿大母亲的采访，我们发现有机孩子反映了母性和道德食品话语的交叉理想，即好母亲是那些通过认真购买食品来保持孩子纯洁和保护环境的人。我们研究中的女性表达了养育有机孩子的愿望，并感到有责任保护孩子的纯洁。与此同时，有机孩子对女性来说是一种性别负担，我们的参与者以复杂的方式协商理想，包括管理情绪和平衡母性的规范期望与务实的要求。有机儿童的理想化形象不仅在意识形态上强化了照料工作的性别观念，而且还努力为良好的母亲设定一个分类标准，这需要大量的经济和文化资本投资。我们认为，有机儿童理想通过强调母亲对保障儿童未来的个人责任，反映了新自由主义对儿童和母亲的社会和环境责任的期望。
In this article, we examine the gendering of ethical food discourse by focusing on the ideal of the organic child'. Drawing from qualitative focus groups and interviews with Canadian mothers of various class backgrounds, we find that the organic child reflects the intersecting ideals of motherhood and ethical food discourse, whereby good' mothers are those who preserve their children's purity and protect the environment through conscientious food purchases. Women in our study express the desire to nurture the organic child, and feel responsible for protecting their children's purity. At the same time the organic child represents a gendered burden for women, our participants negotiate the ideal in complex ways that involve managing emotions and balancing the normative expectations of motherhood with pragmatic demands. The idealized figure of the organic child not only works ideologically to reinforce gendered notions of care-work, but also works to set a classed standard for good mothering that demands significant investments of economic and cultural capital. We argue that the organic child ideal reflects neoliberal expectations about childhood and maternal social and environmental responsibility by emphasizing mothers' individual responsibility for securing children's futures.