Massey University, New Zealand.
Health (London). 2010 May;14(3):292-309. doi: 10.1177/1363459309356073.
Food is related to health, both directly and symbolically, in complex ways. Also, social practices around food are highly gendered, and, in the context of family life, fall largely to mothers. This study examines mothers' talk about nutritional health, and food, health and dietary practices in the context of everyday life, using a discursive analysis of the talk from focus group discussions. Findings show that discourses surrounding nutritional health offer women a variety of conflictual subjectivities. If they do not engage in 'correct' dietary practices, women are positioned as immoral, both as individuals and as mothers. Further, their ability to determine which foods are 'healthy' or 'unhealthy' is undermined through a distrust of 'facts' and scientific evidence, and they are rendered susceptible to exploitation through claims made for food as health promoting. Together, these areas of conflict perpetuate subjectivities of anxiety around dietary practices.The women seek to re-position themselves and overcome these contradictions by offering a variety of legitimations for their dietary practices. In doing so, they resist nutritional health messages and reveal how such messages can have unintended effects.
食物与健康之间存在着直接和象征性的复杂关系。此外，与食物相关的社会习俗具有强烈的性别特征，在家庭生活中，这些习俗主要由母亲承担。本研究采用焦点小组讨论中话语分析的方法，考察了母亲在日常生活背景下对营养健康、食物、健康和饮食实践的看法。研究结果表明，围绕营养健康的话语为女性提供了多种相互矛盾的主体性。如果她们不遵守“正确”的饮食实践，女性会被认为是不道德的，无论是作为个体还是作为母亲。此外，由于对“事实”和科学证据的不信任，她们对哪些食物是“健康”或“不健康”的判断能力受到了损害，而且由于声称食物具有促进健康的作用，她们容易受到剥削。这些冲突领域共同使焦虑的主体围绕饮食实践持续存在。这些女性试图通过为自己的饮食实践提供多种合法化来重新定位自己并克服这些矛盾。在这样做的过程中，她们抵制营养健康信息，并揭示了这些信息可能产生的意外影响。
