Lindy Wilbraham
Biographic Data
| ID | 108866 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lindy Wilbraham |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lindy |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilbraham |
| SIGNATURE | WILBRAHAM L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Natal |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Teaching Aids
African universities have been called to respond to the social issues of trauma, adversity, injustice and inequality that trouble their embedding communities, their staff and their students. The need for South African universities to respond to HIV/Aids (in particular) includes the opening up of new knowledge about and ways of managing the impacts of the epidemic; and shaping a young generation of socio-politically literate subjects and citizens,…
Manufacturing Willingness
Responsive to the perceived high risks of HIV-infection by sexually active youth, several South African sexual health promotion campaigns have used media targeting parents/mothers, instructing them on how sex should be talked about with their children/youth to ‘risk-proof’ them. In this paper I examine how conversations about sex between apparently unwilling parents and young people are fabricated in selected loveLife print-media texts. A Foucaul…
Parental communication with children about sex in the South African HIV epidemic
Responsive to perceived high risk of HIV infection by sexually active youth, several South African sexual health-promotion campaigns have used media targeting mothers, instructing them on how sex should be talked about with their children to 'risk-proof' them. A Foucauldian approach to the normative apparatus of family–sexuality–risk finds mothers positioned as pivots between 'public' (health, economy, culture) and 'private' (family, childrearing…
Discourses of Culture and Illness in South African Mental Health Care and Indigenous Healing, Part II
This discourse analytic study explores constructions of culture and illness in the talk of psychiatrists, psychologists and indigenous healers as they discuss possibilities for collaboration in South African mental health care. Disjunctive versions of what 'culture' is in relation to the illness of a person form an important site for the negotiation of power relations between mental health practitioners and indigenous healers. The results of this…
Discourses of Culture and Illness in South African Mental Health Care and Indigenous Healing, Part I
This discourse analytic study explores constructions of culture and illness in the talk of psychiatrists, psychologists and indigenous healers as they discuss possibilities for collaboration in South African mental health care. Versions of 'culture', and disputes over what constitutes 'disorder', are an important site for the negotiation of power relations between mental health practitioners and indigenous healers. The results of this study are p…
‘Few of us are Potential Miss South Africas, But…’
This article explores the psychologized interstices between the appearance of women's bodies and their ‘inner selves’. Using a Foucauldian analysis with feminist undertones, several ways in which psychological discourses are deployed in ‘crises’ of ‘physical unattractiveness’ in advice texts, are examined. The work of Wendy Hollway on the positioning of women and men in heterosexual relationship practice is taken, critically, as a starting point.…
Dear Doctor Delve-in
Dear Doctor Delve-in
Who reads sex advice columns? Why do we read them? Does sex information affect who we are expected to be as women? LINDY WILBRAHAM explores these questions in light of ‘The Sexpert's Guide’ by Dr David Delvin, an advice column in Femina magazine, which is noted for its informative and entertaining approach to sex and sexuality
Discourse and the Politics of Space in South Africa
In this study, we analyze a body of discourse concerning the government of space in South Africa, employing the methodological framework developed by Wetherell and Potter (1992). Our data comprised a series of letters submitted to local newspapers by the white residents of a coastal town in the Cape Province. The letters protested, on various grounds, the development of a black `squatter' community within the town's environs. The present research…
Discourse and the Politics of Space in South Africa
In this study, we analyze a body of discourse concerning the government of space in South Africa, employing the methodological framework developed by Wetherell and Potter (1992). Our data comprised a series of letters submitted to local newspapers by the white residents of a coastal town in the Cape Province. The letters protested, on various grounds, the development of a black `squatter' community within the town's environs. The present research…
Discourses of Culture and Illness in South African Mental Health Care and Indigenous Healing, Part I
This discourse analytic study explores constructions of culture and illness in the talk of psychiatrists, psychologists and indigenous healers as they discuss possibilities for collaboration in South African mental health care. Versions of 'culture', and disputes over what constitutes 'disorder', are an important site for the negotiation of power relations between mental health practitioners and indigenous healers. The results of this study are p…
Manufacturing Willingness
Responsive to the perceived high risks of HIV-infection by sexually active youth, several South African sexual health promotion campaigns have used media targeting parents/mothers, instructing them on how sex should be talked about with their children/youth to ‘risk-proof’ them. In this paper I examine how conversations about sex between apparently unwilling parents and young people are fabricated in selected loveLife print-media texts. A Foucaul…
Dear Doctor Delve-in
Discourses of Culture and Illness in South African Mental Health Care and Indigenous Healing, Part II
This discourse analytic study explores constructions of culture and illness in the talk of psychiatrists, psychologists and indigenous healers as they discuss possibilities for collaboration in South African mental health care. Disjunctive versions of what 'culture' is in relation to the illness of a person form an important site for the negotiation of power relations between mental health practitioners and indigenous healers. The results of this…
Discourse and the Politics of Space in South Africa
In this study, we analyze a body of discourse concerning the government of space in South Africa, employing the methodological framework developed by Wetherell and Potter (1992). Our data comprised a series of letters submitted to local newspapers by the white residents of a coastal town in the Cape Province. The letters protested, on various grounds, the development of a black `squatter' community within the town's environs. The present research…
‘Few of us are Potential Miss South Africas, But…’
This article explores the psychologized interstices between the appearance of women's bodies and their ‘inner selves’. Using a Foucauldian analysis with feminist undertones, several ways in which psychological discourses are deployed in ‘crises’ of ‘physical unattractiveness’ in advice texts, are examined. The work of Wendy Hollway on the positioning of women and men in heterosexual relationship practice is taken, critically, as a starting point.…
Dear Doctor Delve-in
Dear Doctor Delve-in
Who reads sex advice columns? Why do we read them? Does sex information affect who we are expected to be as women? LINDY WILBRAHAM explores these questions in light of ‘The Sexpert's Guide’ by Dr David Delvin, an advice column in Femina magazine, which is noted for its informative and entertaining approach to sex and sexuality
Discourses of Culture and Illness in South African Mental Health Care and Indigenous Healing, Part II
This discourse analytic study explores constructions of culture and illness in the talk of psychiatrists, psychologists and indigenous healers as they discuss possibilities for collaboration in South African mental health care. Disjunctive versions of what 'culture' is in relation to the illness of a person form an important site for the negotiation of power relations between mental health practitioners and indigenous healers. The results of this…
Discourses of Culture and Illness in South African Mental Health Care and Indigenous Healing, Part I
This discourse analytic study explores constructions of culture and illness in the talk of psychiatrists, psychologists and indigenous healers as they discuss possibilities for collaboration in South African mental health care. Versions of 'culture', and disputes over what constitutes 'disorder', are an important site for the negotiation of power relations between mental health practitioners and indigenous healers. The results of this study are p…
Parental communication with children about sex in the South African HIV epidemic
Responsive to perceived high risk of HIV infection by sexually active youth, several South African sexual health-promotion campaigns have used media targeting mothers, instructing them on how sex should be talked about with their children to 'risk-proof' them. A Foucauldian approach to the normative apparatus of family–sexuality–risk finds mothers positioned as pivots between 'public' (health, economy, culture) and 'private' (family, childrearing…
Manufacturing Willingness
Responsive to the perceived high risks of HIV-infection by sexually active youth, several South African sexual health promotion campaigns have used media targeting parents/mothers, instructing them on how sex should be talked about with their children/youth to ‘risk-proof’ them. In this paper I examine how conversations about sex between apparently unwilling parents and young people are fabricated in selected loveLife print-media texts. A Foucaul…
Teaching Aids
African universities have been called to respond to the social issues of trauma, adversity, injustice and inequality that trouble their embedding communities, their staff and their students. The need for South African universities to respond to HIV/Aids (in particular) includes the opening up of new knowledge about and ways of managing the impacts of the epidemic; and shaping a young generation of socio-politically literate subjects and citizens,…
Gender Studies (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Political science (6 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Community Health and Development (3 works) · Law (3 works)