In the name of the child The gendered politics of childhood obesity

被引:41
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作者
Zivkovic, Tanya [1 ]
Warin, Megan [1 ]
Davies, Michael [1 ]
Moore, Vivienne [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Adelaide, Life Course & Intergenerat Hlth Res Grp, Fac Hlth Sci, Discipline Anthropol,Fac Humanities & Social Sci, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia
关键词
childhood; child politics; media; mothers; neoliberal governance; obesity; HEALTH; FOOD; RESPONSIBILITY; INTERVENTION; PREVALENCE; OVERWEIGHT; WELFARE; FUTURE; TRENDS;
D O I
10.1177/1440783310384456
中图分类号
C91 [社会学];
学科分类号
030301 ; 1204 ;
摘要
This paper investigates the ways in which 'the child' is positioned in obesity debates and, in doing so, examines the discursive relations between childhood obesity, mothering and child neglect. Using legal cases of parental neglect and an analysis of representations of obesity in Australian print media, we argue that a particular constellation of 'child politics' in which children are represented as innocent victims of poor parenting is at play. Parenting, however, is a code for mothers and it is their gendered responsibility for food and families for which they are now being held legally culpable in cases of neglect. The relationship between children and mothers has become the focus of moral discourses around childhood obesity, containing contradictory elements of innocence and risk, responsibility and danger. The intersection of child politics, mothering and individualized responsibility not only illuminates the ways in which gender is absent yet centrally implicated in obesity debates and policy, but also highlights how models of neoliberal governance encompass both State and decentralized forms of power in their attempt to regulate excess bodies.
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页码:375 / 392
页数:18
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