Between blame and care
Women's 'Needs Talk' About Obesity Interventions in Prenatal Care
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2249690 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Drude Skov Lauridsen (0000-0001-7946-3814, Department of Food and Resource Economics University of Copenhagen Copenhagen Denmark, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 758-771 |
| Publication date | 2020-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology of Health & Illness (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-9889 • E-ISSN: 1467-9566 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-9566.13058 |
| PMID | 31975525 |
| OpenAlex | W3002653723 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 32 |
Pregnant women's weight is no longer a private life situation, but a public health issue. In western prenatal care policies, pregnant women with a high body mass index (BMI) are targeted as a high-risk group in need of extra prenatal care to prevent pregnancy complications and childhood obesity. Recent studies argue that such targeting leads to a number of unintended negative consequences for women such as stigmatisation and mother blame. While targeting based on BMI increases the surveillance of women's weight and behaviour in pregnancy, it might also provide extra care and services for women. This article draws on Nancy Fraser's concept of 'needs talk' to investigate how women interpret Danish prenatal care services provided to meet the 'obese' pregnant women's needs. The analysis shows that women engage ambivalently with claims about their needs and who they 'are' as these are formulated by health authorities. Some claims and assumptions about the 'obese' pregnant woman are accepted. Others are rejected or redefined. The article concludes by discussing maternal ambivalence about the obesity discourse in relation to the 'obese' pregnant woman as a category that positions women between being blamed and receiving extra prenatal care
Blame · Environmental health · Prenatal care · Psychological intervention · Bariatric Surgery and Outcomes · Medicine · Nursing · Obesity and Health Practices · Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet · Psychology · Social Psychology
Risk and the regulated self
Pregnancy, birth and risk
Bonny babies? Motherhood and nurturing in the age of obesity
Qualitative Researching
Fortunes of Feminism
Formations of Class and Gender
Women's perspectives are required to inform the development of maternal obesity services
Wombs at risk, wombs as risk
Pregnant with possibility
Mothers at Large
Precious cargo’
From the womb to the tomb
Medicine, morality and mothering
Telescoping the origins of obesity to women's bodies
Statistical Adhockeries Are No Criteria for Legal Decisions—The Case of the Expert Medical Report on the Assessment of Urine Specimens Collected Among Athletes Having Participated to the Vancouver and Sochi Winter Olympic Games
I'm Just a Woman Having a Baby”
Food, fat and family
Obese’ ‘sumo’ babies, morality and maternal identity
Unruly practices
Justice interruptus
Obesity, stigma and reflexive embodiment
The Weight of the Word
Expertise and Forms of Knowledge in the Government of Families
The Unstructured Interactive Interview
Bodies, mothers and identities
Ultrasound as a technology of reassurance? How pregnant women and health care professionals articulate ultrasound reassurance and its limitations
Liberal governance and prenatal care
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2023 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |