Bodies, mothers and identities: rethinking obesity and the BMI
Bodies, mothers and identities: rethinking obesity and the BMI
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1467-9566.2007.01029.x
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发表时间：
2008-01-01
影响因子：
2.9
通讯作者：
Davies, Michael
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作者：
Warin, Megan;Turner, Karen;Davies, Michael
尽管人们对肥胖问题给予了高度关注，但在解决这一公共卫生现象的发病率上升方面取得的成功有限。本文认为，目前的肥胖症的方法没有考虑的概念的体现，特别是，性别和基于类的经验的体现被忽视的健康促进的做法和政策。借鉴布迪厄的惯习的概念，这个民族志研究试图找到肥胖的传记和日常经验的两组妇女从不同的社会经济环境。这些女性并不认同肥胖的临床类别，而是通过性别和分类的习性，特别是通过她们作为母亲的角色，构建了折射的身份。食物供应和实践是母性构建的核心，而这些关系身份与促进个人行为变化不一致。此外，这些妇女的日常生活是由不同阶级的惯习，如就业。在展示肥胖是如何陷入参与者的理所当然的，日常的做法，我们质疑的普遍性，促进健康的信息，并强调的整体作用，体质的批判理论在理解肥胖的体现。
Despite the intense level of attention directed towards obesity, there has been limited success in addressing the rising rates of this public health phenomenon. This paper argues that current approaches to obesity fail to consider concepts of embodiment, and in particular, that gendered and class-based experiences of embodiment are ignored in health promotion practices and policies. Drawing on Bourdieu's concept of habitus, this ethnographic study sought to locate obesity within the biographies and everyday experiences of two groups of women from differing socio-economic settings. Rather than identify with the clinical category of obesity, these women constructed identities that were refracted through a gendered and classed habitus, and in particular, through their role as mothers. Food provision and practices were central to constructs of mothering, and these relational identities were at odds with the promotion of individual behavioural changes. Moreover, these women's daily lives were shaped by different class-based aspects of habitus, such as employment. In demonstrating the ways in which obesity is enmeshed in participants' taken-for-granted, everyday practices, we problematise the universality of health-promotion messages and highlight the integral role that the critical theory of habitus has in understanding the embodiment of obesity.