School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
Addiction Department, AULSS 6 Euganea, Padova, Italy.
Sociol Health Illn. 2021 Jul;43(6):1454-1470. doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.13318. Epub 2021 Jun 28.
Mothers' alcohol consumption has often been portrayed as problematic: firstly, because of the effects of alcohol on the foetus, and secondly, because of the association between motherhood and morality. Refracted through the disciplinary lens of public health, mothers' alcohol consumption has been the target of numerous messages and discourses designed to monitor and regulate women's bodies and reproductive health. This study explores how mothers negotiated this dilemmatic terrain, drawing on accounts of drinking practices of women in paid work in the early parenting period living in Northern England in 2017-2018. Almost all of the participants reported alcohol abstention during pregnancy and the postpartum period and referred to low-risk drinking practices. A feature of their accounts was appearing knowledgeable and familiar with public health messages, with participants often deploying 'othering', and linguistic expressions seen in public health advice. Here, we conceptualise these as Assumed Shared Alcohol Narratives (ASANs). ASANs, we argue, allowed participants to present themselves as morally legitimate parents and drinkers, with a strong awareness of risk discourses which protected the self from potential attacks of irresponsible behaviour. As such, these narratives can be viewed as neoliberal narratives, contributing to the shaping of highly responsible and self-regulating subjectivities.
一方面是因为酒精对胎儿的影响，另一方面是因为母亲身份与道德之间的关联。从公共卫生学科的角度来看，母亲饮酒问题已成为众多旨在监控和规范女性身体和生殖健康的信息和话语的目标。本研究通过对 2017-2018 年居住在英格兰北部的处于育儿早期的在职女性饮酒行为的描述，探讨了母亲如何应对这一两难境地。几乎所有的参与者都报告说在怀孕期间和产后期间戒酒，并提到了低风险的饮酒行为。她们的叙述中有一个特点是对公共卫生信息表现出了解和熟悉，参与者经常使用“他者化”和公共卫生建议中的语言表达。在这里，我们将这些表述概念化为“假定共享酒精叙事”（Assumed Shared Alcohol Narratives，ASANs）。我们认为，ASANs 允许参与者将自己呈现为道德上合法的父母和饮酒者，并强烈意识到风险话语，这可以保护自己免受不负责任行为的潜在攻击。因此，这些叙述可以被视为新自由主义的叙述，有助于塑造高度负责和自我监管的主体。
