Department of Geography and the Environment, University of Texas, Austin, USA.
Health Place. 2011 Jan;17(1):345-52. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2010.11.012. Epub 2010 Dec 3.
This article presents data from an in-depth qualitative study of overweight and diabetic women in Morocco, a North African country experiencing a rapid increase in obesity according to national statistics. This case study explores the heterogeneous relationship among health, culture and religion in Morocco by highlighting the relationship between the intricacies of women's everyday lives and their body sizes. My findings suggest that although the Body Mass Index (BMI) of adult women has been documented to have increased in Morocco along with other macroeconomic changes (i.e., increases in urbanization, etc.), "obesity" has yet to be universally medicalized in the Moroccan context. As such women do not generally utilize a medicalized concept of obesity in reference to their larger body sizes. Rather, cultural constructions of "obesity" are understood through cultural understandings of a larger body size, religious beliefs about health and illness, and the nature of women's religious participation. This stands in contrast to dominant accounts about the region that promote an overall veneration of a larger body size for women.
本文提供了摩洛哥超重和糖尿病女性的深入定性研究数据，根据国家统计数据，摩洛哥是一个北非国家，肥胖率正在迅速上升。本案例研究通过强调女性日常生活的复杂性与其体型之间的关系，探讨了摩洛哥健康、文化和宗教之间的异质关系。我的研究结果表明，尽管摩洛哥成年女性的体重指数（BMI）随着其他宏观经济变化（如城市化的增加等）而增加，但“肥胖”在摩洛哥的背景下尚未被普遍医学化。因此，女性通常不会将医学化的肥胖概念用于描述她们更大的体型。相反，“肥胖”的文化构建是通过对更大体型的文化理解、关于健康和疾病的宗教信仰以及女性宗教参与的性质来理解的。这与关于该地区的主流观点形成鲜明对比，后者普遍推崇女性对更大体型的崇拜。
