Practicing Food Anxiety: Making Australian Mothers Responsible for Their Families’ Dietary Decisions

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