Gwen E Chapman
Biographic Data
| ID | 137463 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gwen E Chapman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gwen E |
| FAMILY NAME | Chapman |
| SIGNATURE | CHAPMAN G E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9679-2457 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 348 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
The Game of Queer Family Life: Exploring 2SLGBTQI+ Parents' Experiences of Cisheteronormativity, Racism, and Colonialism Through Digital Storytelling in Ontario, Canada
In this article we describe and analyze five videos created through an arts-informed research project, Precarious Inclusion: Studying Ontarian 2SLGBTQI+ parents' experiences childrearing in a post-legal parity framework. Precarious Inclusion used interviews and digital storytelling to investigate Ontario 2SLGBTQI+ parents' current experiences of inclusion and exclusion when navigating institutional and social interactions in everyday life in a po…
The problem of heteronormativity in family-based health promotion: Centring gender transformation in Ontario, Canada
The emotional toll of postfeminist fatherhood
Postfeminism shapes the political economy of the workforce and household, constituting a re‐entrenchment of traditional heterosexual gender regimes and the pressure to transgress them. Focusing on the understudied area of postfeminist masculinity, we analyze the emotional toll some fathers experience as a result of the fraught expectations to be the breadwinner, nurturing parent, and enlightened feminist spouse who completes equal domestic duties…
District-level implementation of British Columbia’s school food and beverage sales policy: A realist evaluation exploring intervention mechanisms in urban and rural contexts
The outcomes of these three policy mechanisms are influenced by complex dimensions of context. Identifying context-mechanism interactions can help inform public health policymakers interested in interventions for improving school food environments
The visible and invisible occupations of food provisioning in low income families
Food-related occupations connect people with family, community, tradition, ritual, and culture. They are a means of producing and conveying social identities, as they are rife with symbolic meaning. Food provisioning occupations require complex knowledges and skills, particularly for those living on low income. This qualitative analysis explores the occupations of food provisioning for 31 low-income families in Canada. Participants displayed subs…
Factors affecting the acceptability and consumption of Corn Soya Blend Plus as a prenatal dietary supplement among pregnant women in rural Cambodia
Objective Undernutrition is prevalent among pregnant women in Cambodia. The provision of fortified dietary supplements is one strategy to help pregnant women meet their nutritional needs. Corn Soya Blend Plus (CSBP) is a widely used prenatal dietary supplement in areas with high rates of undernutrition and food insecurity. However, little is known about its acceptability during pregnancy. The present study aimed to identify factors that affected …
Cultural and Symbolic Capital With and Without Economic Constraint: Food Shopping in Low-income and High-income Canadian Families
This paper uses a Bourdieusian theoretical framework to explore how thirty-nine Canadian families shop for food. Based on two qualitative interviews with at least two members of each family, in seven sites across Canada, we explore how high- and low-income families describe their food shopping practices and priorities. For low-income households, economic constraints were paramount, and shoppers displayed extensive cultural capital in the knowledg…
Sustainability and public health nutrition at school: Assessing the integration of healthy and environmentally sustainable food initiatives in Vancouver schools
Objective To describe the development and application of the School Food Environment Assessment Tools and a novel scoring system to assess the integration of healthy and environmentally sustainable food initiatives in elementary and secondary schools. Design The cross-sectional study included direct observations of physical food environments and interviews with key school personnel regarding food-related programmes and policies. A five-point scor…
Associations between socio-economic status and school-day dietary intake in a sample of grade 5–8 students in Vancouver, Canada
Objective To examine associations between students’ socio-economic status (SES) and school-day dietary intake, and the roles of parents and peers in shaping these associations. Design A cross-sectional survey measured school-day intake of vegetables, whole grains, low-fat milk, packaged snack foods and sugar-sweetened beverages. Logistic regression models examined associations between SES (parental education and food insecurity status) and dietar…
Food Practices and Transnational Identities: Case Studies of Two Punjabi-Canadian Families
Food has long been understood as a potent marker of cultural identity. In the context of transnational migrant communities, food practices express group and individual identities as well as multiple social positionings within the current environment. At the same time, food practices are part of navigating between local and global attachments. This article examines how food practices in two Punjabi-Canadian families are implicated in identity cons…
The rural and the rotund? A critical interpretation of food deserts and rural adolescent obesity in the Canadian context
“I Don't Want to be Sexist But…”: Denying and Re-Inscribing Gender Through Food
Reporting the results of semi-structured interviews with adults and teenagers in twentytwo urban and rural families in British Columbia, Canada, this paper explores how gendered divisions of food consumption continue to exist within a supposedly “non-sexist” ideological context. With a photo elicitation technique used to stimulate discussions of food and gender, investigators found that most interview participants reproduced stereotypically gende…
Vitamin D supplementation is associated with higher serum 25 OHD in A sian and W hite infants living in V ancouver, C anada
To prevent rickets, the Health Canada and the American Academy of Pediatrics recommend that breastfed infants receive a daily vitamin D supplement of 10 μg d(-1) . Compliance with this recommendation is variable and its effect on infant vitamin D status is unclear. We measured serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25OHD) in Asian immigrant (n=28) and White (n=37) mothers and their infants aged 2-4 months living in Vancouver (49°N). Mothers completed health …
Meanings of food, eating and health among African Nova Scotians: ‘Certain things aren't meant for Black folk
While culturally traditional eating patterns are often understood as costly in terms of health, it is equally important to understand that adopting healthy eating has costs in terms of family, community, and cultural identity. Dietary change unavoidably entails cultural loss, thus resisting healthy eating guidelines may signify resistance to racism or cultural dominance. Several suggestions are offered regarding how community strengths and belief…
Setting the table. Theoretical and methodological approaches to studying family food practices in relation to place and social location
I don’t want to be sexist with my food”. The continued salience of gender in food choice
Too much of that stuff can't be good: Canadian teens, morality, and fast food consumption
Gender relations, prostate cancer and diet: Re-inscribing hetero-normative food practices
Food, Photographs, and Frames: Photo Elicitation in a Canadian Qualitative Food Study
Photo elicitation was employed in a cross-Canada study on family food habits as a means of understanding the meanings that people associate with food. From each family who took part in the study, at least one parent and one adolescent were asked to participate in a qualitative interview, to take photographs of how food fits into their everyday lives, and to participate in a second interview about their photos. In using photo elicitation, we were …
A decolonizing approach to health promotion in Canada: The case of the Urban Aboriginal Community Kitchen Garden Project
Aboriginal people in Canada suffer ill-health at much higher rates compared with the rest of the population. A key challenge is the disjuncture between the dominant biomedical approach to health in Canada and the holistic and integrative understandings of and approaches to health in many Aboriginal cultures. More fundamentally, colonization is at the root of the health challenges faced by this population. Thus, effective approaches to health prom…
Prostate cancer, masculinity and food. Rationales for perceived diet change
The Majority of Older British Columbians Take Vitamin D-containing Supplements
Being a 'good mother: Dietary governmentality in the family food practices of three ethnocultural groups in Canada
In this qualitative study with three ethnocultural groups in two regions of Canada, we explore how official dietary guidelines provide particular standards concerning 'healthy eating' that marginalize other understandings of the relationship between food and health. In families where parents and youth held shared ways of understanding healthy eating, the role of 'good mother' was constructed so as to include healthy eating expertise. Mothers expr…
Being 'thick' indicates you are eating, you are healthy and you have an attractive body shape: Perspectives on fatness and food choice amongst Black and White men and women in Canada
Despite recent critiques of contemporary obesity discourses that link 'modern Western lifestyles' to an 'obesity epidemic', the population's weight remains a central concern of current dietary guidelines. Food choices that are considered beneficial to maintaining a certain weight are understood to play a key role in one's health. This concern reflects medico-moral assumptions about the properties of food and what people should eat. However, the i…
People Are Just Becoming More Conscious of How Everything's Connected: Ethical' Food Consumption in Two Regions of Canada
In this qualitative study with three ethnocultural groups in two regions of Canada, we explore the ways reflexivity and tradition may help explain regional differences concerning 'ethical consumption' in relation to food. We argue that 'reflexive modernity' cannot be said to apply unambiguously in contemporary Canada. The food concerns of Punjabi British Columbian and African Nova Scotian participants centred more on cultural traditions than on e…
It's Just Easier for Me to Do It: Rationalizing the Family Division of Foodwork
While women continue to do the lion's share of foodwork and other housework, they and their families appear to perceive this division of labour as fair. Much of the research in this area has focused on families of European origin, and on the perceptions of women. Here we report findings of a qualitative study based on interviewing multiple family members from three ethno-cultural groups in Canada. Women, men and children employed similar rational…
Engaging with healthy eating discourse(s): Ways of knowing about food and health in three ethnocultural groups in Canada
Making Weight: Lightweight Rowing, Technologies of Power, and Technologies of the Self
This paper uses a Foucauldian framework for understanding how human experience is shaped by relations of power to explore the weight management practices of members of a women’s lightweight rowing team. Like other forms of disciplinary power, making weight involves implementing a regimen governed by normalizing assumptions, maintained through self-monitoring, and supported by discourse. The practices of making weight also are examined as a techno…
Autonomy and control: The co-construction of adolescent food choice
Too much of that stuff can't be good: Canadian teens, morality, and fast food consumption
Gender relations, prostate cancer and diet: Re-inscribing hetero-normative food practices
Masculinity and food ideals of men who live alone
Food Practices and Transnational Identities: Case Studies of Two Punjabi-Canadian Families
Food has long been understood as a potent marker of cultural identity. In the context of transnational migrant communities, food practices express group and individual identities as well as multiple social positionings within the current environment. At the same time, food practices are part of navigating between local and global attachments. This article examines how food practices in two Punjabi-Canadian families are implicated in identity cons…
Tough Teens: The Methodological Challenges of Interviewing Teenagers as Research Participants
Encouraging a teenager to have a conversation in a semistructured research interview is fraught with difficulties. The authors discuss the methodological challenges encountered when interviewing adolescents of European Canadian, African Canadian, and Punjabi Canadian families who took part in the Family Food Decision-Making Study in two regions of Canada. The researchers were interested in how family members made decisions about food choices. In …
Being a 'good mother: Dietary governmentality in the family food practices of three ethnocultural groups in Canada
In this qualitative study with three ethnocultural groups in two regions of Canada, we explore how official dietary guidelines provide particular standards concerning 'healthy eating' that marginalize other understandings of the relationship between food and health. In families where parents and youth held shared ways of understanding healthy eating, the role of 'good mother' was constructed so as to include healthy eating expertise. Mothers expr…
People Are Just Becoming More Conscious of How Everything's Connected: Ethical' Food Consumption in Two Regions of Canada
In this qualitative study with three ethnocultural groups in two regions of Canada, we explore the ways reflexivity and tradition may help explain regional differences concerning 'ethical consumption' in relation to food. We argue that 'reflexive modernity' cannot be said to apply unambiguously in contemporary Canada. The food concerns of Punjabi British Columbian and African Nova Scotian participants centred more on cultural traditions than on e…
Cultural and Symbolic Capital With and Without Economic Constraint: Food Shopping in Low-income and High-income Canadian Families
This paper uses a Bourdieusian theoretical framework to explore how thirty-nine Canadian families shop for food. Based on two qualitative interviews with at least two members of each family, in seven sites across Canada, we explore how high- and low-income families describe their food shopping practices and priorities. For low-income households, economic constraints were paramount, and shoppers displayed extensive cultural capital in the knowledg…
The emotional toll of postfeminist fatherhood
Postfeminism shapes the political economy of the workforce and household, constituting a re‐entrenchment of traditional heterosexual gender regimes and the pressure to transgress them. Focusing on the understudied area of postfeminist masculinity, we analyze the emotional toll some fathers experience as a result of the fraught expectations to be the breadwinner, nurturing parent, and enlightened feminist spouse who completes equal domestic duties…
The rural and the rotund? A critical interpretation of food deserts and rural adolescent obesity in the Canadian context
The visible and invisible occupations of food provisioning in low income families
Food-related occupations connect people with family, community, tradition, ritual, and culture. They are a means of producing and conveying social identities, as they are rife with symbolic meaning. Food provisioning occupations require complex knowledges and skills, particularly for those living on low income. This qualitative analysis explores the occupations of food provisioning for 31 low-income families in Canada. Participants displayed subs…
Being 'thick' indicates you are eating, you are healthy and you have an attractive body shape: Perspectives on fatness and food choice amongst Black and White men and women in Canada
Despite recent critiques of contemporary obesity discourses that link 'modern Western lifestyles' to an 'obesity epidemic', the population's weight remains a central concern of current dietary guidelines. Food choices that are considered beneficial to maintaining a certain weight are understood to play a key role in one's health. This concern reflects medico-moral assumptions about the properties of food and what people should eat. However, the i…
Meanings of food, eating and health among African Nova Scotians: ‘Certain things aren't meant for Black folk
While culturally traditional eating patterns are often understood as costly in terms of health, it is equally important to understand that adopting healthy eating has costs in terms of family, community, and cultural identity. Dietary change unavoidably entails cultural loss, thus resisting healthy eating guidelines may signify resistance to racism or cultural dominance. Several suggestions are offered regarding how community strengths and belief…
Prostate cancer, masculinity and food. Rationales for perceived diet change
The Majority of Older British Columbians Take Vitamin D-containing Supplements
Toward Increased Capacity for Practice-Based Research Among Health Professionals: Implementing a Multisite Qualitative Research Project With Dietitians
Despite repeated efforts to encourage health professionals to conduct practice-based research, including qualitative research, few practitioners have become active researchers. Mentoring, networking, and hands-on experience have been identified as potential approaches for changing this situation. In this article, the authors describe how they implemented a research mentoring/training component in a national study exploring Canadian dietitians' at…
The Game of Queer Family Life: Exploring 2SLGBTQI+ Parents' Experiences of Cisheteronormativity, Racism, and Colonialism Through Digital Storytelling in Ontario, Canada
In this article we describe and analyze five videos created through an arts-informed research project, Precarious Inclusion: Studying Ontarian 2SLGBTQI+ parents' experiences childrearing in a post-legal parity framework. Precarious Inclusion used interviews and digital storytelling to investigate Ontario 2SLGBTQI+ parents' current experiences of inclusion and exclusion when navigating institutional and social interactions in everyday life in a po…
The problem of heteronormativity in family-based health promotion: Centring gender transformation in Ontario, Canada
District-level implementation of British Columbia’s school food and beverage sales policy: A realist evaluation exploring intervention mechanisms in urban and rural contexts
The outcomes of these three policy mechanisms are influenced by complex dimensions of context. Identifying context-mechanism interactions can help inform public health policymakers interested in interventions for improving school food environments
I don’t want to be sexist with my food”. The continued salience of gender in food choice
Making Weight: Lightweight Rowing, Technologies of Power, and Technologies of the Self
This paper uses a Foucauldian framework for understanding how human experience is shaped by relations of power to explore the weight management practices of members of a women’s lightweight rowing team. Like other forms of disciplinary power, making weight involves implementing a regimen governed by normalizing assumptions, maintained through self-monitoring, and supported by discourse. The practices of making weight also are examined as a techno…
Ways of knowing about healthy eating in three ethnocultural groups in Canada
Food-related health concerns of Punjabi British Columbians: Postcolonial perspectives on nutrition and health education
Engaging with healthy eating discourse(s): Ways of knowing about food and health in three ethnocultural groups in Canada
Toward Increased Capacity for Practice-Based Research Among Health Professionals: Implementing a Multisite Qualitative Research Project With Dietitians
Despite repeated efforts to encourage health professionals to conduct practice-based research, including qualitative research, few practitioners have become active researchers. Mentoring, networking, and hands-on experience have been identified as potential approaches for changing this situation. In this article, the authors describe how they implemented a research mentoring/training component in a national study exploring Canadian dietitians' at…
Tough Teens: The Methodological Challenges of Interviewing Teenagers as Research Participants
Encouraging a teenager to have a conversation in a semistructured research interview is fraught with difficulties. The authors discuss the methodological challenges encountered when interviewing adolescents of European Canadian, African Canadian, and Punjabi Canadian families who took part in the Family Food Decision-Making Study in two regions of Canada. The researchers were interested in how family members made decisions about food choices. In …
Autonomy and control: The co-construction of adolescent food choice
Masculinity and food ideals of men who live alone
It's Just Easier for Me to Do It: Rationalizing the Family Division of Foodwork
While women continue to do the lion's share of foodwork and other housework, they and their families appear to perceive this division of labour as fair. Much of the research in this area has focused on families of European origin, and on the perceptions of women. Here we report findings of a qualitative study based on interviewing multiple family members from three ethno-cultural groups in Canada. Women, men and children employed similar rational…
A decolonizing approach to health promotion in Canada: The case of the Urban Aboriginal Community Kitchen Garden Project
Aboriginal people in Canada suffer ill-health at much higher rates compared with the rest of the population. A key challenge is the disjuncture between the dominant biomedical approach to health in Canada and the holistic and integrative understandings of and approaches to health in many Aboriginal cultures. More fundamentally, colonization is at the root of the health challenges faced by this population. Thus, effective approaches to health prom…
Prostate cancer, masculinity and food. Rationales for perceived diet change
The Majority of Older British Columbians Take Vitamin D-containing Supplements
Being a 'good mother: Dietary governmentality in the family food practices of three ethnocultural groups in Canada
In this qualitative study with three ethnocultural groups in two regions of Canada, we explore how official dietary guidelines provide particular standards concerning 'healthy eating' that marginalize other understandings of the relationship between food and health. In families where parents and youth held shared ways of understanding healthy eating, the role of 'good mother' was constructed so as to include healthy eating expertise. Mothers expr…
Being 'thick' indicates you are eating, you are healthy and you have an attractive body shape: Perspectives on fatness and food choice amongst Black and White men and women in Canada
Despite recent critiques of contemporary obesity discourses that link 'modern Western lifestyles' to an 'obesity epidemic', the population's weight remains a central concern of current dietary guidelines. Food choices that are considered beneficial to maintaining a certain weight are understood to play a key role in one's health. This concern reflects medico-moral assumptions about the properties of food and what people should eat. However, the i…
People Are Just Becoming More Conscious of How Everything's Connected: Ethical' Food Consumption in Two Regions of Canada
In this qualitative study with three ethnocultural groups in two regions of Canada, we explore the ways reflexivity and tradition may help explain regional differences concerning 'ethical consumption' in relation to food. We argue that 'reflexive modernity' cannot be said to apply unambiguously in contemporary Canada. The food concerns of Punjabi British Columbian and African Nova Scotian participants centred more on cultural traditions than on e…
Setting the table. Theoretical and methodological approaches to studying family food practices in relation to place and social location
I don’t want to be sexist with my food”. The continued salience of gender in food choice
Too much of that stuff can't be good: Canadian teens, morality, and fast food consumption
Gender relations, prostate cancer and diet: Re-inscribing hetero-normative food practices
Food, Photographs, and Frames: Photo Elicitation in a Canadian Qualitative Food Study
Photo elicitation was employed in a cross-Canada study on family food habits as a means of understanding the meanings that people associate with food. From each family who took part in the study, at least one parent and one adolescent were asked to participate in a qualitative interview, to take photographs of how food fits into their everyday lives, and to participate in a second interview about their photos. In using photo elicitation, we were …
“I Don't Want to be Sexist But…”: Denying and Re-Inscribing Gender Through Food
Reporting the results of semi-structured interviews with adults and teenagers in twentytwo urban and rural families in British Columbia, Canada, this paper explores how gendered divisions of food consumption continue to exist within a supposedly “non-sexist” ideological context. With a photo elicitation technique used to stimulate discussions of food and gender, investigators found that most interview participants reproduced stereotypically gende…
Vitamin D supplementation is associated with higher serum 25 OHD in A sian and W hite infants living in V ancouver, C anada
To prevent rickets, the Health Canada and the American Academy of Pediatrics recommend that breastfed infants receive a daily vitamin D supplement of 10 μg d(-1) . Compliance with this recommendation is variable and its effect on infant vitamin D status is unclear. We measured serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25OHD) in Asian immigrant (n=28) and White (n=37) mothers and their infants aged 2-4 months living in Vancouver (49°N). Mothers completed health …
Meanings of food, eating and health among African Nova Scotians: ‘Certain things aren't meant for Black folk
While culturally traditional eating patterns are often understood as costly in terms of health, it is equally important to understand that adopting healthy eating has costs in terms of family, community, and cultural identity. Dietary change unavoidably entails cultural loss, thus resisting healthy eating guidelines may signify resistance to racism or cultural dominance. Several suggestions are offered regarding how community strengths and belief…
Food Practices and Transnational Identities: Case Studies of Two Punjabi-Canadian Families
Food has long been understood as a potent marker of cultural identity. In the context of transnational migrant communities, food practices express group and individual identities as well as multiple social positionings within the current environment. At the same time, food practices are part of navigating between local and global attachments. This article examines how food practices in two Punjabi-Canadian families are implicated in identity cons…
The rural and the rotund? A critical interpretation of food deserts and rural adolescent obesity in the Canadian context
Sociology (23 works) · Psychology (21 works) · Medicine (19 works) · Political science (15 works) · Culinary Culture and Tourism (13 works) · Obesity and Health Practices (13 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Social science (10 works) · Geography (9 works)