Department of Nursing and Allied Health, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia.
Department of Food, Nutrition and Dietetics, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.
Sociol Health Illn. 2022 Jun;44(6):919-935. doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.13471. Epub 2022 Apr 11.
Through an exploration of the origins of dietetics in the West, and specifically in Australia, we problematise the lack of diversity within the profession through the lens of intersectionality. Dietetics in Australia continues to be dominated by Australian-born women, and ideologies about dietitians perpetuate narratives of white, young, slim, women. Intersectional approaches to critiquing diversity in dietetics provides a useful framework to extend critical studies of health disparities into disparities in the dietetics professional workforce, which is advanced through structural, political and representational intersectionality guided critique. Through the analysis, a dialog is prompted in order to chart paths forward to find 'how differences will find expression' within the professional group. To do this, dietetics as a profession must reckon with its historical roots and step forward, out of a perceived position of objective neutrality regarding people and diversity, and into a position that can recognise that professional institutions have the power to exclude and marginalise, along with the power to include and transform.
通过对西方，特别是澳大利亚的营养学起源的探索，我们从交叉性的角度来探讨该行业缺乏多样性的问题。澳大利亚的营养学仍然由澳大利亚出生的女性主导，而关于营养师的观念则延续了白人、年轻、苗条女性的叙事。交叉性方法对营养学多样性的批判为将健康差异的批判性研究扩展到营养学专业劳动力中的差异提供了一个有用的框架，这是通过结构、政治和代表性的交叉性指导的批判来实现的。通过分析，引发了一场对话，以规划前进的道路，在专业群体中找到“差异将如何表达”的途径。为此，营养学作为一个专业，必须正视其历史根源，并向前迈进，摆脱人们和多样性方面的客观中立的表象，走向一个能够认识到专业机构有排斥和边缘化的权力，以及包容和变革的权力的位置。
