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dc.contributor.authorTanner, C.
dc.contributor.authorMaher, J.
dc.contributor.authorFraser, Suzanne
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T12:34:08Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T12:34:08Z
dc.date.created2014-02-23T20:00:24Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.identifier.citationTanner, Claire and Maher, Jane Maree and Fraser, Suzanne. 2013. ‘I don't want her to be overweight like I was as a girl’: Mother/child bodily connections in nutritional carework. Australian Feminist Studies. 28 (76): pp. 177-194.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/22869
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/08164649.2013.789583
dc.description.abstract

Widespread concern about a childhood obesity ‘epidemic’ has focused attention on the bodies, weight and food behaviours of mothers and their children. In childhood obesity-related discourse, mothers' bodies are framed in relation to the bodies of children, most directly in claims that fat mothers produce fat babies. Drawing on data from a qualitative study involving interviews with mothers of pre-school aged children, this paper examines how the blurring of body boundaries between women and children are translated into responsibilities in feeding. We argue that in the contemporary stigmatisation of fat, the external auditing of maternal feeding and children's bodies connects the bodies of mothers and children in detrimental ways. By focusing on the ways women are held responsible for both their own and children's bodies, we draw attention to how bodily aspirations, conflict and failure, shame, self-surveillance, judgement and guilt connect women to the bodies of their children. We stress the embodied significance of mother/child relations in early childhood nutritional care and we argue that a punitive anti-fat ethic threatens positive health outcomes for mothers and children.

dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.title‘I don't want her to be overweight like I was as a girl’: Mother/child bodily connections in nutritional carework
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume28
dcterms.source.number76
dcterms.source.startPage177
dcterms.source.endPage194
dcterms.source.issn08164649
dcterms.source.titleAustralian Feminist Studies
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This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in the Australian Feminist Studies (2013), copyright Taylor & Francis, available online at: <a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/08164649.2013.789583">http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/08164649.2013.789583</a>. Note: two references omitted from this version: 1) Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). 2012. Australian Health Survey 4364.0.55.001 2011-2012. Canberra ACT: Commonwealth of Australia; 2) Caplan, Paula J. 1998. ‘‘Mother-Blaming.’’ In ‘Bad’ Mothers: The Politics of Blame in Twentieth-Century America, edited by Ladd-Taylor Molly and Umansky Lauri, 127_144. New York: New York University Press.

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