‘I don't want her to be overweight like I was as a girl’: Mother/child bodily connections in nutritional carework

‘I don't want her to be overweight like I was as a girl’: Mother/child bodily connections in nutritional carework

Widespread concern about a childhood obesity ‘epidemic’ has focused attention on the bodies, weight and food behaviours of mothers and their children. In childhood obesity-related discourse, mothers' bodies are framed in relation to the bodies of children, most directly in claims that fat mothe...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Tanner, C., Maher, J., Fraser, Suzanne
Format: Journal Article
Published: Routledge 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/22869

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