Right, yet impossible? Constructions of healthy eating

McDonald, Annabelle; Braun, Virginia

doi:10.1016/j.ssmqr.2022.100100

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“…A link between hegemonic masculinity and fertility has typically been more connected to men's ability to impregnate women than to fatherhood (Mason, 1993)and indeed, our data situated fertility per se as the (masculinity) benefit of healthy eating, only rarely referencing fatherhood:…”

Section: A Lad's Looks and Lifestylementioning

confidence: 64%

“…Here, the data evoked long-standing connections between (hegemonic) masculinity and sexual prowess (Mason, 1993;Oliffe, 2005;Thompson & Barnes, 2013). Given dominant understandings of men's sexuality, and (hetero) sex more generally, which place the (erect) penis at the center of sex, enhancing erectile function operates as both sexuality and masculinity enhancer (e.g., see Potts, 2000).…”

Section: A Lad's Looks and Lifestylementioning

confidence: 92%

“…The Disciplined Dude. Healthy eating was depicted as a practice that requires self-control and discipline, a practice of restraint, restriction and moderation compared to implied normal eating (see also McDonald & Braun, 2022). Data items consistently deployed words such as "cut back" (DI1), "limit" (DI3), and "skip" (DI10) when referring to unhealthy foods, and advised restraint in general: Also, avoid eating until you feel like popping-regular servings with fewer calories are more than enough.…”

Section: Mind Over Matter: the Masculine Mindsetmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“Your Diet Defines Who You Are, Especially as a Man”: Masculinity in Online Media Focused on Healthy Eating for Men

Jelicich,

Braun

2023

Am J Mens Health

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In contexts marked by neoliberal ideology and a claimed “crisis” in men’s health, men are responsibilized to be/come healthy. Eating has long been a gendered practice in Western cultures, and recent cultural shifts have produced ways of eating that are both masculinized and (claimed) healthy. Online healthy eating advice, which encourages and supports men to eat healthily, is an important information source. However, such information draws on, reproduces, and/or disrupts existing meanings about men and eating. To understand contemporary representations of men and healthy eating, we examined 30 online media articles oriented specifically to this topic. Using reflexive thematic analysis from a social constructionist position, we developed two themes: A lad’s looks and lifestyle and Mind over matter: The masculine mindset. These themes together told an overarching story that healthy eating is effectively sold to men by drawing on traditional or hegemonic ideals of masculinity and effectively evoking access to an enhanced masculinity through healthy eating. While these representational practices may sell healthy eating to men, with likely positive health benefits, they also reinforce hegemonic ideals of masculinity which can be problematic from a health perspective.

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Section: A Lad's Looks and Lifestylementioning

confidence: 64%

Section: A Lad's Looks and Lifestylementioning

confidence: 92%

Section: Mind Over Matter: the Masculine Mindsetmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“Your Diet Defines Who You Are, Especially as a Man”: Masculinity in Online Media Focused on Healthy Eating for Men

Jelicich,

Braun

2023

Am J Mens Health

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“…Whilst student samples have been common in other published Story Completion studies (e.g. Clarke and Braun, 2019; Hayfield and Wood, 2019; McDonald and Braun, 2022), and we would argue were appropriate for this study, it should be noted that most of the sample were aged 19 to 21. Given that the “refugee crisis” in various forms has been spoken about frequently in the media since at least 2015, we suggest that this age group are likely to have some level of knowledge about refugees and that the Story Completion task allows a different way of exploring their understandings than would other data collection methods that may ask more direct questions about the topic.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Uncertain futures: perceptions of refugees in a story completion task

Parker

Earnshaw

Penn

et al. 2023

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PurposeIn recent years the movement of refugees has led to increasing negative media and political discourse about migration in the United Kingdom, particularly as the number of refugees crossing the English Channel has increased. Despite this hostility, little is known about how the UK public perceive the journeys made by refugees or the refugees themselves.Design/methodology/approachIn this study the authors used a story completion method to analyse perceptions and understandings of refugees. Participants were given the opening of a story about refugees crossing the English Channel and were asked to complete the remainder of the story. In total, 84 participants completed stories that ranged in length from two to 423 words. The stories were analysed using reflexive thematic analysis.FindingsEach of the completed stories was analysed using reflexive thematic analysis and three themes were generated: Conflicting emotions: Uncertainty and the relief of reaching safety after a traumatic journey; The spectre of illegality: Borders and the uncertainty of what happens next; and Welcome or unwelcome?: Cultural values of welcome and hospitality.Originality/valueThe authors argue that this original use of the story completion method highlights how participants draw on cultural narratives of hospitality and welcome and that their stories are constructed using emotional categories that are in contrast to the more binary constructions of refugees that are present in media and government discourse about refugees and the English Channel crossings.

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“…Yet QSC remains little used in health research. The method has been used to explore health-related topics broadly, for example, psychological health or service provision (Moller & Tischner, 2019; Scholz, Bocking et al, 2020; Shah Beckley & Clarke, 2021; Shah-Beckley et al, 2020; Vaughan et al, 2022), healthy eating or weight loss (McDonald & Braun, 2022; Tischner, 2019), and health information seeking (Lupton, 2021a). There are very few examples of QSC research within the fields of nursing, medicine, health service research, and allied health (see Coultas et al, 2020; Diniz et al, 2020).…”

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Qualitative Story Completion: Opportunities and Considerations for Health Research

et al. 2023

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Qualitative story completion (QSC) is an innovative research method that offers researchers a range of unique opportunities for generating and analysing data. Participants are asked to write a ‘story’ in response to a hypothetical ‘story stem’, often in the third-person and involving fictional characters, rather than reporting on their direct experiences. QSC is being developed and increasingly taken up by researchers working across a range of fields; but it has been little used in health research, especially in the fields of nursing, health services research, medicine, and allied health. This means that health researchers have few examples to draw on when considering what QSC can offer them and how to rigorously design, conduct, and report a QSC study within health-related fields. We aim to address this gap and contribute to existing QSC literature by promoting increased use of QSC by health researchers and supporting them to produce rigorous QSC research. We outline three case examples illustrating how we have used QSC to conduct multidisciplinary health research relevant to nursing, medicine and nutrition. Drawing on these case examples, we reflect on challenges that we encountered, describe decision-making processes, and offer recommendations for conducting rigorous health research using QSC.

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Right, yet impossible? Constructions of healthy eating

Cited by 13 publications

References 47 publications

“Your Diet Defines Who You Are, Especially as a Man”: Masculinity in Online Media Focused on Healthy Eating for Men

“Your Diet Defines Who You Are, Especially as a Man”: Masculinity in Online Media Focused on Healthy Eating for Men

Uncertain futures: perceptions of refugees in a story completion task

Qualitative Story Completion: Opportunities and Considerations for Health Research

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