Article
Fixing Food to Fix Families: Feeding Risk Discourse and the Family Meal
Women's Studies in Communication
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-2-2017
Description
This article examines mothering rhetorics as they relate to feeding the family. The analysis is grounded in public, popular, and institutional texts about family meals and focus-group data from 31 mothers talking about their experiences and perceptions of family meals. The author demonstrates how family meal discourses work as a reproducing rhetoric that moralizes maternal feeding work. The author argues that family meal discourse is problematic because it obscures the ways in which it is mother-targeted and mother-blaming; suppresses maternal voice and misrepresents family food labor; and regulates maternal activity, and thus identity.
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Citation Information
Amber E. Kinser. "Fixing Food to Fix Families: Feeding Risk Discourse and the Family Meal" Women's Studies in Communication Vol. 40 Iss. 1 (2017) p. 29 - 47 ISSN: 0749-1409 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/amber-kinser/7/