Jackson Katherine, Finch Tracy, Kaner Eileen, McLaughlin Janice
Faculty of Medical Science, Population Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University, Baddiley-Clark Building, Richardson Road, Newcastle, NE2 4AX UK.
Department of Nursing, Faculty of Health & Life Sciences, Northumbria University, Midwifery & Health, Newcastle, UK.
Soc Theory Health. 2022 Jun 24:1-17. doi: 10.1057/s41285-022-00183-7.
In this paper we explore the importance of relationality and care for understanding women's alcohol use, using a theoretical framework comprising concepts from feminist ethics of care, the sociology of personal life, and feminist approaches to governmentality. A key focus is how care giving responsibilities and expectations in families appear to be particularly significant for creating or constraining possibilities for drinking practices. We draw on findings from a qualitative study about alcohol use and stress with 26 women, aged 24-67 years, in the North East of England, UK. We consider how care practices in families feature in the accounts of alcohol use by women with and without children, and how the symbolic and material aspects of social class interact with care to alter the drinking practices women engage in. The interpretation extends scholarship on women's drinking, by adopting a relational approach to identity and linking private care practices and alcohol use to social and political structures. Public health approaches for preventing or reducing heavy drinking practices are predominantly situated within biomedical or psychological paradigms. Intervention approaches to reduce women's drinking that draw on our theoretical framework could offer potential for reducing harmful alcohol use in a more meaningful way.
在本文中，我们运用一个理论框架来探讨关系性和关怀对于理解女性饮酒行为的重要性，该理论框架包含来自女性主义关怀伦理学、个人生活社会学以及女性主义治理方法的概念。一个关键重点是，家庭中的关怀责任和期望对于创造或限制饮酒行为的可能性似乎尤为重要。我们借鉴了一项针对英国英格兰东北部26名年龄在24至67岁之间的女性进行的关于饮酒与压力的定性研究结果。我们思考有孩子和没有孩子的女性在饮酒描述中家庭关怀实践是如何体现的，以及社会阶层的象征和物质层面如何与关怀相互作用，从而改变女性的饮酒行为。通过采用一种关于身份认同的关系性方法，并将私人关怀实践和饮酒行为与社会及政治结构联系起来，这一解释拓展了关于女性饮酒的学术研究。预防或减少重度饮酒行为的公共卫生方法主要处于生物医学或心理学范式之中。借鉴我们的理论框架的减少女性饮酒的干预方法，可能为以更有意义的方式减少有害饮酒行为提供潜力。
