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dc.contributor.authorTanner, C.
dc.contributor.authorPeterson, A.
dc.contributor.authorFraser, Suzanne
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T11:37:20Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T11:37:20Z
dc.date.created2014-08-12T20:00:24Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.identifier.citationTanner, C. and Peterson, A. and Fraser, S. 2014. Food, fat and family: Thinking fathers through mothers' words. Women's Studies International Forum. 44: pp. 209-219.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/13480
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.wsif.2013.01.017
dc.description.abstract

In targeting parenting and the family with advice on healthy eating and exercise, contemporary childhood obesity discourse draws attention to mothers as primary carers. In the process, fathers' roles and responsibilities in promoting healthy lifestyles and in family food work are neglected or silenced. This article addresses the silence surrounding fathers' participation in the feeding of their families. To do so we draw on qualitative data from an Australian Research Council-funded study investigating the impact of childhood obesity-related health messages on families. Using Carol Gilligan's (1982) notion of the ethics of care and Ann Phoenix's (2010) concept of ‘intertextuality’ and silence in the qualitative research process, we offer an ‘intertextual’ reading of mothers' presentations of fathers' involvement in family food provisioning. Mothers' accounts reveal how gender is relationally produced in the context of parental food work, with descriptions of maternal expertise, altruism and commitment to health being contrasted with stories of paternal authority, complacency and selfishness.

dc.publisherElsevier Ltd
dc.titleFood, fat and family: Thinking fathers through mothers' words
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume44
dcterms.source.startPage209
dcterms.source.endPage219
dcterms.source.issn02775395
dcterms.source.titleWomen's Studies International Forum
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This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in the journal, Women's Studies International Forum. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in the Women's Studies International Forum, Volume 44, May–June 2014, Pages 209–219 http://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2013.01.017

curtin.departmentNational Drug Research Institute (Research Institute)
curtin.accessStatusOpen access


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