I'm a good parent because I had bad parents

Narratives of Care and Moral Worth in Fat Liberation Discourse

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ID2965680
AuthorsRachele Salvatelli (0000-0001-6271-8702, University of York, corresponding author)
Year2025
Volume14
Issue2
Pages1-9
Publication date2025-08-06
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueFat Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2160-486X • E-ISSN: 2160-4851
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/21604851.2025.2542644
OpenAlexW4413010502
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited23

This article examines how fat body positive individuals construct narratives of moral worth through caring practices. Drawing from qualitative interviews with eleven fat body positive individuals, I explore how participants navigate societal expectations, health discourses, and caring practices to establish parental legitimacy. Through narrative analysis, I demonstrate how fat parents employ caring practices as a form of moral currency to counter stigmatization, while negotiating complex tensions between body positive ideology and dominant health discourses. The findings reveal that caring practices serve as both performance and technique in establishing parental worth, extending beyond biological children to encompass broader social relationships. This research contributes to fat studies scholarship by revealing how caring practices operate as moral currency, extending theoretical frameworks on fat embodiment and parental worth

Liberation · Linguistics · Narrative · Sociology · Chemistry · Diversity and Impact of Dance · Gender Studies · Obesity and Health Practices · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology · Social Psychology

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