Food and family practices: teenagers, eating and domestic life in differing socio-economic circumstances

Backett‐Milburn, Kathryn; Wills, Wendy; Roberts, Mei-Li; Lawton, Julia

doi:10.1080/14733285.2010.494882

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“…Both sets of parents, however, talked about the increasing challenge of influencing children's food intake through the teenage years. In contrast to the differences in their parents' narratives, the teenagers from both working and middle class families thought that they had little control at home (mothers were portrayed as exerting the most control) and surprisingly However, whereas the middle class teenagers generally approved of the food provided and prepared for themselves and the rest of the family, the working class teenagers talked more about preparing food themselves and their narratives indicated a greater autonomy with regards to where and what they ate, echoing other studies in which the most economically disadvantaged groups of children report the most freedom (Backett-Milburn et al, 2011). In Backett-M study, then, socio tion in family food practices.…”

Section: Food Eating and Everyday Family Lifementioning

confidence: 51%

Everyday Family Food Practices

Fairbrother¹,

Ellis²

2018

Families, Intergenerationality, and Peer Group Relations

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This chapter considers the debates around childhood obesity and focuses on UK public health campaigns, such as Change4Life, aimed at children and their parents. It aims to broaden the childhood obesity debate commonly discussed in the UK public health literature by using Childhood Studies to critique everyday assumptions that seem to be made about children in public health policy. The chapter consider views and perspectives of children, thereby challenging assumptions suggesting instead that children play an active part in everyday family feeding practices. The family as a context for the negotiation of everyday food practices is explored and the dichotomous relationship of parent and child considered. Reflections are also offered on the fluidity and complexity of family structures and the importance that food plays within the context of everyday family life and how food provisioning impacts on intergenerational relationships within the family. The chapter finishes by exploring perceptions of While the health literature assumes that children are simply recipients of parental feeding, this chapter highlights research that shows that children also construct their own understandings about the healthiness of food and that they are active participants in negotiating family food practices. Through exploring studies situated within contemporary childhood and families research, the chapter affords a much more nuanced picture of childhood obesity discourses.

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Section: Food Eating and Everyday Family Lifementioning

confidence: 51%

Everyday Family Food Practices

Fairbrother¹,

Ellis²

2018

Families, Intergenerationality, and Peer Group Relations

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“…From pregnancy onwards, the nourishing work of mothers' bodies and daily feeding practices are understood to constitute care (De Vault, 1991;Beagan et al, 2008;Warin et al, 2008Warin et al, , 2012Cook, 2009aCook, , 2009b. Food is central to the creation of family identity (DeVault, 1991;Valentine, 1999;Phillips, 2008;Backett-Milburn et al, 2010;Silva, 2010;Wills et al, 2011) and mothers are both providers and managers. The advent of widespread concern about childhood obesity in the last decade has intersected with existing responsibilities: mothers are newly accountable for what and how children eat.…”

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Responsibility and resistance: women negotiating the nourishment of children

Maher¹,

Wright

Tanner

2013

Families, Relationships and Societies

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Childhood obesity is identified as a key public health challenge. Women have been made responsible for this new aspect of 'good' child feeding. In this article we draw on a study of Australian mothers of preschool-aged children to explore how women integrate new demands for healthy eating into their daily feeding practices. We found that these women were highly responsive to discourses of responsibility for 'healthy eating' (and fearful of obesity for their children). Yet, they expressed disquiet about intense bodily surveillance of children and were sometimes sceptical of measures of 'obesity' and overweight. Differing social and economic resources influenced how public prescriptions were mobilised in family food patterns, but all these women were in part resistant to circulating normative food discourses. We conclude that responsibility needs to be more richly defined as including women's resistance and reliance on their own embedded relational expertise with their children.

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“…In other words, families are created through activities such as eating together rather than being a naturally occurring group (DeVault 1994, Backett-Milburn et al 2010, Julier 2012. De Vault (1994:15) makes a distinction between family as a lived reality and family as a social institution.…”

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Is It a Pleasure to Eat Together? Theoretical Reflections on Conviviality and the Mediterranean Diet

2015

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In 2013 the Mediterranean Diet was recognized by UNESCO as an intangible cultural heritage of Spain, Greece, Italy and Morocco. Conviviality -the pleasure of eating together -was recognized as the cornerstone of food culture in the region. Although the concept of commensality has been explored widely in the literature, studies on conviviality and convivial dining are almost non-existent. This review explores the concept of conviviality and its significance in relation to the Mediterranean Diet. It draws on sociological and anthropological literature to define conviviality and to address the perceived benefits of eating together as well as the social constraints on pleasurable meals. The paper draws upon the work of French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu and his ideas of Habitus, Field and Cultural Capital, examining how these concepts relate to pleasurable eating and conviviality. It offers an interdisciplinary perspective on who and what makes conviviality happen and the potential obstacles to the experience and promotion of convivial dining.

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Food and family practices: teenagers, eating and domestic life in differing socio-economic circumstances

Cited by 53 publications

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Everyday Family Food Practices

Everyday Family Food Practices

Responsibility and resistance: women negotiating the nourishment of children

Is It a Pleasure to Eat Together? Theoretical Reflections on Conviviality and the Mediterranean Diet

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