Newhook Julia Temple, Gregory Deborah, Twells Laurie
Faculty of Medicine/School of Pharmacy, Memorial University, Canada.
Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University, Canada.
Sociol Health Illn. 2015 Jun;37(5):653-67. doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.12219. Epub 2015 Feb 11.
Over 80% of weight loss surgery (WLS) patients are women, yet gender is overwhelmingly absent in WLS research. This article discusses the findings of 54 interviews with twenty-one women and six men waiting for WLS in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. We critically examine the ways that gender shapes the meaning of WLS in these narratives. We explore gendered meanings in participants' perspectives on their embodied experiences before surgery, social support as they decided to undergo the procedure, and their expectations for their lives after WLS. We draw on feminist theory to explain how these findings counter the dominant gender-neutral medical model of obesity.
超过80%的减肥手术（WLS）患者为女性，但减肥手术研究中却几乎完全没有考虑性别因素。本文讨论了对加拿大纽芬兰与拉布拉多省等待接受减肥手术的21名女性和6名男性进行的54次访谈结果。我们批判性地审视了性别在这些叙述中塑造减肥手术意义的方式。我们从参与者对手术前身体体验的看法、决定接受手术时的社会支持以及减肥手术后对生活的期望等方面，探究了其中的性别化意义。我们运用女性主义理论来解释这些研究结果如何与占主导地位的肥胖症性别中立医学模式相悖
