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'Judging a body by its cover': Young lebanese-canadian women's discursive constructions of the 'healthy' body and 'health' practices

机译：“用遮盖物判断身体”：年轻的黎巴嫩-加拿大妇女对“健康”身体和“健康”习俗的话语结构

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Our interest stems from the dramatic increase in the number of obesity studies, which expose Canadian women to a huge amount of information that links health to weight. Using feminist poststructuralist and postcolonial lenses, this paper investigates young Lebanese-Canadian women's constructions of the body and "health" practices within the context of the dominant obesity discourse. Participant-centered conversations were held with 20 young Christian Lebanese-Canadian women. A thematic analysis was first conducted and was followed by a poststructuralist discourse analysis to further our understanding of how the participants construct themselves as subjects within various discourses surrounding health, obesity, and the body. Our findings reveal that most participants conflate the "healthy" body and the "ideal" body, both of which they ultimately portray as thin. The young women construct the "healthy"/"ideal" body as a solely individual responsibility, thus reinforcing the idea of "docile bodies." The majority of participants report their frequent involvement in disciplinary practices such as rigorous physical activity and dietary restrictions, and a few young women mention the use of other extreme forms of bodily monitoring such as detoxes, dieting pills, and compulsive exercise. We discuss the language employed by participants to construct their multiple and shifting subjectivities. For instance, many of these Lebanese-Canadian women use the term "us" to dissociate themselves from Lebanese women ("them"), whom they portray as overly focused on thinness and beauty and engaged in physical activity and other bodily practices for "superficial" purposes. The participants also use the "us/them" trope to distance themselves from "Canadian" women (read: white Euro-Canadian women), whom they portray as very physically active for purposes beyond the improvement of the physical appearance of the body. We discuss the impacts of the young Christian Lebanese-Canadian women's hybrid cultural identities and diasporic spaces on their discursive constructions of the body and "health" practices. Finally, we examine the participants' fluid subject-positions: On one hand, they construct themselves as neoliberal subjects re-citing elements of dominant neoliberal discourses (self-responsibility for health, traditional femininity, and obesity) but, on the other hand, they at times construct themselves as "timid" poststructuralist subjects expressing awareness of, and "micro- resistance" to such discourses.
机译：我们的兴趣来自于肥胖研究数量的急剧增加，该研究使加拿大妇女获得了大量将健康与体重联系起来的信息。本文使用女性主义的后结构主义和后殖民主义的视角，研究了占主导地位的肥胖话语下黎巴嫩年轻的加拿大加拿大女性的身体结构和“健康”习惯。以参与者为中心的对话与20位基督教黎巴嫩黎巴嫩－加拿大年轻妇女进行。首先进行了主题分析，然后进行了后结构主义的话语分析，以进一步了解参与者如何围绕健康，肥胖和身体等各种话语将自己建构为主体。我们的发现表明，大多数参与者将“健康”的身体和“理想”的身体混为一谈，他们最终将两者描绘为瘦弱的。年轻妇女将“健康” /“理想”的身体构造为一种单独的个人责任，从而增强了“温顺的身体”的观念。大多数参与者报告说他们经常参加纪律练习，例如严格的体育锻炼和饮食限制，而一些年轻妇女则提到使用其他极端形式的身体监测，例如排毒，减肥药和强迫运动。我们讨论了参与者用来构建其多元和变化的主观性的语言。例如，许多这些黎巴嫩-加拿大妇女使用“我们”一词来与黎巴嫩妇女（“她们”）分离，她们将她们描绘成过于注重瘦弱和美丽，并从事体育锻炼和其他身体活动以“肤浅”。的目的。参加者还使用“我们”把他们与“加拿大”妇女（阅读：欧洲的加拿大白人妇女）保持距离，她们将她们描绘为非常活跃的人，其目的不仅仅是改善身体的生理外观。我们讨论了黎巴嫩基督教加拿大青年女性混合文化身份和流放空间对她们的肢体话语结构和“健康”习俗的影响。最后，我们研究了参与者的流动性主体位置：一方面，他们将自己构造为新自由主义主体，引用了新自由主义占主导地位的话语（对健康，传统女性气质和肥胖的自我责任感），但另一方面，他们有时将自己建构为“胆怯的”后结构主义主体，表达对这种话语的意识和“微抵抗”。

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