From the womb to the tomb: obesity and maternal responsibility
From the womb to the tomb: obesity and maternal responsibility
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从子宫到坟墓：肥胖和母亲责任
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2011
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D. McNaughton
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D. McNaughton
近几十年来，营养过剩和肥胖已成为儿童和婴儿健康和福祉迫在眉睫的威胁，尤其是在西方工业化社会。然而，这种威胁并不仅仅限于被“父母”“喂得过多”的“孩子”。越来越多的母亲超重和肥胖被认为会抑制受孕，导致反复流产，对胎儿的发育和健康构成严重威胁，并对孩子未来的福祉产生长期影响。在这些话语中，父母的责任显得尤为重要，其中女性尤其要对其后代从子宫到坟墓的未来（无脂肪）健康负责。本文认为，肥胖科学核心的核心假设已在关注受孕、怀孕和生殖的医学领域不加批判地采用，这为监视、监管和纪律“威胁”（肥胖）女性身体提供了新的机会。研究表明，尽管所有育龄妇女都受到这种严重惩罚性的医学道德话语的关注，但边缘化妇女的身体、生活和卧室被挑选出来，对其后代构成最大的“风险”，并成为更大程度的健康/国家干预和监视的目标。
In recent decades overnutrition and obesity have been presented as a looming threat to the health and wellbeing of children and infants, most notably in western industrialised societies. However, this threat is not simply limited to ‘children’ who are ‘over fed’ by their ‘parents’. Increasingly, maternal overweight and obesity are said to inhibit conception, cause recurrent miscarriage, pose a serious threat to the development and health of the foetus and have long-term implications for the future wellbeing of the child. Parental responsibility looms large in these discourses, in which women in particular are held responsible for the future (fat free) health of their offspring from the womb to the tomb. In this article, it is argued that core assumptions at the heart of obesity science have been taken up uncritically in medical arenas focused on conception, pregnancy and reproduction and that this is providing new opportunities for the surveillance, regulation and disciplining of ‘threatening’ (fat) female bodies. It is shown that although all women of a reproductive age are being brought under the gaze of this deeply punitive medico-moral discourse, it is the bodies, lives and bedrooms of marginalised women that are singled out as posing the greatest ‘risk’ to their offspring and then targeted for even greater degrees of health/State intervention and surveillance.