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    Practicing food anxiety: Making Australian mothers responsible for their families’ dietary decisions

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    Authors
    Peterson, A.
    Tanner, C.
    Fraser, Suzanne
    Date
    2014
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Peterson, A. and Tanner, C. and Fraser, S. 2014. Practicing food anxiety: Making Australian mothers responsible for their families’ dietary decisions. Food and Foodways: Explorations in the History and Culture of Human Nourishment. 22 (3): pp. 175-197.
    Source Title
    Food and Foodways
    DOI
    10.1080/07409710.2014.935671
    ISSN
    0740-9710
    School
    National Drug Research Institute (Research Institute)
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    This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Food and Foodways, 2014, copyright Taylor & Francis, available online at: <a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/">http://www.tandfonline.com/</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.1080/07409710.2014.935671">http://doi.org/10.1080/07409710.2014.935671</a>

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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/11449
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    Concerns about the relationship between diet, weight, and health find widespread expression in the media and are accompanied by significant individual anxiety and responsibilization. However, these pertain especially to mothers, who undertake the bulk of domestic labor involved in managing their families’ health and wellbeing. This article employs the concept of anxiety as social practice to explore the process whereby mothers are made accountable for their families’ dietary decisions. Drawing on data from an Australian study that explored the impact of discourses of childhood obesity prevention on mothers, the article argues that mothers’ engagements with this value-laden discourse are complex and ambiguous, involving varying degrees of self-ascribed responsibility and blame for children's weight and diets. We conclude by drawing attention to the value of viewing food anxiety as social practice, in highlighting issues that are largely invisible in both official discourses and scholarly accounts of childhood obesity prevention.

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