The influence of dominant obesity discourse on child health narratives: a qualitative study

This article explores men’s talk about physical activity, weight, health and slimming. Drawing from qualitative data from men whom medicine might label overweight or obese, it outlines various ideal typical ways of orienting to the idea that physical activity promotes “healthy” weight loss before exploring the most critical display of perspective: justifiable resistance and defiance. This gendered mode of accountability comprises numerous themes. These range from the inefficiency of physical activity in promoting weight loss to resisting imposed discipline. Theoretically and politically, these data are read as a situationally fitting and meaningful response to “symbolic violence” in a field of “masculine domination” (Bourdieu 2001)—that is, a society in which fatness is routinely discredited as feminine and feminizing filth by institutions that are publicly reinforcing and amplifying fatphobic norms or sizism.

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Lesbian, gay and bisexual parents’ experiences of nurses’ attitudes in child health care-A qualitative study

Journal of Clinical Nursing ◽

10.1111/jocn.14006 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 26 (23-24) ◽

pp. 5065-5071 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Anna-Eva Andersen ◽

Catherine Moberg ◽

Anita Bengtsson Tops ◽

Pernilla Garmy

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Child Health ◽

Qualitative Study ◽

Child Health Care ◽

And Bisexual ◽

Parents Experiences

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Child Health Policies from the Lens of Equality in Iran: A Qualitative Study

Health Scope ◽

10.5812/jhealthscope.88314 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Narges Rouhi ◽

Hasan Jafari ◽

Fatemeh Setoodehzadeh ◽

Mostafa Amini-Rarani

Keyword(s):

Child Health ◽

Qualitative Study ◽

Health Policies

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Actions and reactions to obstetric violence: a qualitative study about waterbirth

International Journal for Innovation Education and Research ◽

10.31686/ijier.vol9.iss8.3292 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 9 (8) ◽

pp. 284-298

Author(s):

Joyce da Costa Silveira de Camargo ◽

Régia Cristina Oliveira ◽

Andiara Rodrigues de Souza ◽

Kelly Cristina Máxima Pereira Venâncio ◽

Vitória Karen Raimundo ◽

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Keyword(s):

Child Health ◽

Qualitative Study ◽

Health Professional ◽

Private Hospital ◽

Social Representations ◽

Public And Private ◽

Care Relationship ◽

Obstetric Violence ◽

The Social ◽

The Relationship

This text is part of a research carried out between 2015 and 2016 aimed to investigate the social representations developed by women who gave birth in water about this type of birth. This is a qualitative study carried out with women who experienced waterbirth in a public and private hospital in Portugal. This article is part of this research, seeking to focus on an important theme seized in this investigation: obstetric violence. We seek to discuss the forms of obstetric violence present in the reports of women who have experienced waterbirth. Methodologically, the research was qualitative, using the snowball technique for access to participants and interviews with them. As a result, the existence of resistance and reactions of women is highlighted who, by naming the practices of obstetric violence, including disrespect in the birth scenario, sought to break in different ways with the asymmetry of the relationship with the child health professional, either by silencing and seeking contact with another professional in the care relationship or by denying the impositions to which they were submitted.

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