University Leeds, Institute of Psychological Science, Leeds, West Yorkshire LS2 9JT, UK.
Appetite. 2010 Jun;54(3):524-32. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2010.02.007. Epub 2010 Feb 17.
Healthy eating initiatives, and messages about what one should be eating, are prolific in contemporary British society. This paper examines mothers' talk around food and feeding to determine how trust or mistrust in healthy eating information is established and rationalised. Discursive analysis of interviews with mothers (N=12, aged 25-45) isolated two prominent discursive positions that mothers established with regards to healthy eating messages. First, they legitimised an extensive mistrust of healthy eating information and messages on the grounds that they are at best, inconsistent and at worst, grossly contaminated by stakeholder bias. Second, and in contrast, they established (most) mothers as having a wholesome, privileged, and entirely sufficient instinctive knowledge about how to feed their children. However, an out-group of failing mothers, deemed to have inadequate nutritional knowledge, was also formulated. Mothers talk thus established a central dilemma whereby to accept nutritional advice compromised a good mothering identity. We argue that nutritional messages and interventions should be sensitive to this dilemma so that they facilitate, rather than threaten, a good mothering identity.
在当代英国社会，健康饮食倡议和关于应该吃什么的信息层出不穷。本文通过分析母亲围绕食物和喂养的谈话，来确定对健康饮食信息的信任或不信任是如何建立和合理化的。对 12 名年龄在 25-45 岁的母亲进行的访谈进行话语分析，从中分离出母亲在健康饮食信息方面确立的两个突出的话语立场。首先，她们以健康饮食信息最乐观的情况是不一致的，最糟糕的情况是受到利益相关者偏见严重污染为由，使对健康饮食信息广泛产生怀疑。其次，她们将（大多数）母亲确立为拥有一种有益、有特权且完全充足的本能知识，了解如何喂养孩子。然而，也形成了一个被认为缺乏营养知识的失败母亲的外群体。母亲的谈话因此确立了一个核心困境，即接受营养建议会损害良好的母性身份。我们认为，营养信息和干预措施应该考虑到这一困境，以便促进而不是威胁良好的母性身份。
