Food provisioning, anxiety and control. The process of feeding from the perspective of the mothers
(2007) The Nordic Consumer Policy Research Conference p.1-20- Abstract
- Food and feeding is an important part in bringing up children. It is one way in which children become socialized; it gives rise to both pleasure and anxiety. In this article Marjorie DeVault’s understanding of food management is combined with the concept of responsibilisation. Building on in-depth interviews with mothers from different socio-economic backgrounds and focusing on their different experiences, we see the work of food managing as processual and interactional. There is a tension between trying to put norms into practice and at the same time dealing with specific, often uncertain, situations. In such a circumstance feelings of anxiety and the exertion of control manifest themselves in direct as well as indirect ways.
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- author
- Thorsted, Stine LU and Anving, Terese LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2007
- type
- Contribution to conference
- publication status
- submitted
- subject
- keywords
- responsibilisation, food, anxiety, sociology, family, sociologi, control, socialisation
- pages
- 20 pages
- conference name
- The Nordic Consumer Policy Research Conference
- conference dates
- 2007-10-03 - 2007-10-05
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- f0f661a0-bfda-4a89-9d97-87703620c085 (old id 696487)
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- 2016-04-04 14:01:33
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