Catriona Macleod
Biographic Data
| ID | 3674553 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Catriona Macleod |
| GIVEN NAMES | Catriona |
| FAMILY NAME | Macleod |
| SIGNATURE | MACLEOD C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rhodes University |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-4281-9617 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 58 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 229 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 57 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Multiplying Female Authors, Multiplying Paper: Helmina von Chézy Reflects Herself in Carl August von Schindel’s Lexicon of Women Writers (1823–25)
What does it mean when a speaking object, the paper collar of Helmina von Chézy’s 1829 “it-narrative,” cites the multiplicity of women authors listed in a new literary lexicon? This article examines several striking intertextual connections between Helmina von Chézy, a prolific and eclectic writer—particularly in the periodical press—and Carl August von Schindel’s distinctively broad-minded lexicon of women’s writing, in which Chézy appeared in h…
Stepping into the Void? Examining the Political Trajectories of Cinema and Bande Dessinée in France
In a wonderfully-titled article published in Paragraph in 1992 – ‘How to avoid becoming a middle-aged fogey, with reference to three recent popular French films’ – Keith Reader discusses the literary-inspired, ‘determinedly non-realistic’ (97) direction of late ‘80s film-making in France, considering his chosen films as ‘symptomatic of the ideological and political watering-down of French society’ during the Mitterrand era (108). Despite later re…
Strategies and attributes of scientists for public engagement with climate change
Public engagement by scientists has become imperative across the science-policy interface. Today, there are increasing calls for scientists to engage communities and policymakers as a pathway to incorporate social pluralism, many ways of knowing, and producing usable knowledge. Yet, there is a limited understanding of the strategies and attributes that can help scientists interact with other distinct publics in two-way conversations on a pressing…
Goethe in Context
What drives public engagement by scientists? An Australian perspective
There is an increasing expectation for more scientists to engage with industry, government, and communities to solve climate change. A group for whom these calls are now prevalent are marine (natural and social) scientists working on environmental change, including climate change. Yet, there is limited empirical evidence of what drives them to embrace or avoid engaging distinct publics, including policymakers. Here, we examined via twenty-eight i…
Stifter’s Natives and Wandering Exotica: The Circulating Canons of “Die Narrenburg”
Against the backdrop of readings of Adalbert Stifter’s 1844 Studienfassung of “Die Narrenburg” as an expression either of orientalist fantasy or of Austrian inner colonialism, this article traces the text’s confusing geographies through its intertwined figurations of native and exotic plants. Often thought of (due to the etymology of vegetare) as idle, passive, inert, and mute, flora in this text suggests the tracks of colonial exploration and ho…
The Whole Economy: Work and Gender in Early Modern Europe
Advocating a gender-inclusive approach to the history of work, this book both counts and accounts for women's as well as men's economic activity. Showcasing novel conceptual, methodological and empirical perspectives, it highlights the transformative potential of including women's work in wider assessments of continuity and change in economic performance. Focusing on the period of European history (1500-1800) that generated unprecedented growth i…
Whole Economy
More than just information: What Does the Public Want to Know About Climate Change
Murunga, M., G. T. Pecl, E. M. Ogier, P. Leith, C. Macleod, R. Kelly, S. Corney, I. E. Van Putten, D. Mossop, C. Cullen-Knox, S. Bettiol, P. Fox-Hughes, C. Sharples, and J. Nettlefold. 2022. More than just information: what does the public want to know about climate change?. Ecology and Society 27(2):14. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-13147-270214
Invisible Presence: The Representation of Women in French-Language Comics
E. Patricia Dennison, The Evolution of Scotland's Towns: Creation, Growth and Fragmentation
A global approach to mapping the environmental risk of harbours on aquatic systems
The Conundrums of Counselling Women in Violent Intimate Partner Relationships in South Africa: Implications for Practice
Autonomous adaptation to climate-driven change in marine biodiversity in a global marine hotspot
Invisible Sculpture, Latent Violence, and Monumental Parody in Mädchen in Uniform
According to Robert Musil, the modern monument is characterized by invisibility. Remediated in film, monuments have tended to recede still further from critics’ and viewers’ attention. A similar vanishing act appears to have happened to the sculptural opening sequence of Leontine Sagan’s Mädchen in Uniform, whose audiences and critics have been primarily focused on the film’s groundbreaking lesbian theme. This article looks at, rather than past, …
A critical review of sanctioned knowledge production concerning abortion in Africa: Implications for feminist health psychology
Taking a feminist health psychology approach, we conducted a systematic review of published research on abortion featured in PsycINFO over a 7-year period. We analysed the 39 articles included in the review in terms of countries in which the research was conducted, types of research, issues covered, the way the research was framed and main findings. Despite 97 per cent of abortions performed in Africa being classifiable as unsafe, there has been …
Displaced Vernaculars: Edwin and Willa Muir, Kafka, and the Languages of Modernism
This article explores the contact zone between Kafka's multilingual modernism and the until now overlooked modernist language politics of his first translators into English and thus world literature, the Scottish couple Edwin and Wilhelmina (Willa) Muir. Addressing the Muirs' multilingual modernism, it discusses this worldly wordiness that emerges from lifelong patterns of displacement and that is deeply connected with the Muirs' vexed relationsh…
Abortion embedded and embodied in social relations: Challenges for feminist psychology
Abortion in legal, social, and healthcare contexts
Reproductive justice in context: South African and Zimbabwean women’s narratives of their abortion decision
The abortion decision-making process is embedded within overlapping power relations. Using a post-colonial feminist framework, we analyse South African and Zimbabwean women’s narratives regarding their abortion decision. As neighbouring countries, South Africa and Zimbabwe provide a useful counterpoint as they have common and differing social histories and very different abortion legislation. In our analysis, we unpick transversal commonalities a…
A contemporary phenomenology of menstruation: Understanding the body in situation and as situation in public health interventions to address menstruation-related challenges
Introducing State of the Discipline Papers
The editors of Feminism & Psychology are delighted to introduce the first of our State of the Discipline papers. Twenty-five years have passed since the establishment of FP point out areas of conceptual and methodological debate among feminist scholars; open up the topic to further scrutiny and new ways of understanding; and promote nuanced work in the field. We hope that the State of the Discipline papers will accomplish a number of aims. We int…
How Content Analysis may Complement and Extend the Insights of Discourse Analysis: An Example of Research on Constructions of Abortion in South African Newspapers 1978–2005
Although discourse analysis is a well-established qualitative research methodology, little attention has been paid to how discourse analysis may be enhanced through careful supplementation with the quantification allowed in content analysis. In this article, we report on a research study that involved the use of both Foucauldian discourse analysis (FDA) and directed content analysis based on social constructionist theory and our qualitative resea…
Public foetal images and the regulation of middle-class pregnancy in the online media: A view from South Africa
Ultrasonography images and their derivatives have been taken up in a range of 'public' spaces, including medical textbooks, the media, anti-abortion material, advertising, the Internet and public health facilities. Feminists have critiqued the personification of the foetus, the bifurcation of the woman's body and the reduction of the pregnant woman to a disembodied womb. What has received less attention is how these images frequently intersect wi…
Deconstructing Developmental Psychology 20 years on: Reflections, implications and empirical work
First paragraph: Erica Burman’s bookDeconstructing Developmental Psychology(DDP), which appeared in first edition in 1994 and in second edition in 2008, critically appraises mainstream approaches to child development, using feminist and post-structuralist theory. In the book,Burman (1994,2008a) examines the historical contingencies and cultural assumptions that form the conditions of possibility for the establishment of various developmental psyc…
Foucauldian Feminism: The Implications of Governmentality
Stigma Resistance in Online Childfree Communities: The Limitations of Choice Rhetoric
People who are voluntarily childless, or “childfree,” face considerable stigma. Researchers have begun to explore how these individuals respond to stigma, usually focusing on interpersonal stigma management strategies. We explored participants’ responses to stigma in a way that is cognisant of broader social norms and gender power relations. Using a feminist discursive psychology framework, we analysed women’s and men’s computer-assisted communic…
A Performative-Performance Analytical Approach: Infusing Butlerian Theory Into the Narrative-Discursive Method
Judith Butler's theory of performativity provides gender theorists with a rich theoretical language for thinking about gender. Despite this, Butlerian theory is difficult to apply, as Butler does not provide guidance on actual analysis of language use in context. In order to address this limitation, we suggest carefully supplementing performativity with the notion of performance in a manner that allows for the inclusion of relational specificitie…
South African Psychology and ‘Relevance’: Continuing Challenges
During the apartheid era, psychology was accused of being irrelevant, and of advertently or inadvertently bolstering apartheid. Since 1994, much has changed in psychology. However, much has remained the same. In a situational analysis of research in psychology over the last five years it emerged that quantitative methods based on ‘hard’ science theory, as well as the traditional topics of assessment, psychotherapy, counselling, psychopathology an…
Reproductive justice in context: South African and Zimbabwean women’s narratives of their abortion decision
The abortion decision-making process is embedded within overlapping power relations. Using a post-colonial feminist framework, we analyse South African and Zimbabwean women’s narratives regarding their abortion decision. As neighbouring countries, South Africa and Zimbabwe provide a useful counterpoint as they have common and differing social histories and very different abortion legislation. In our analysis, we unpick transversal commonalities a…
When veiled silences speak: Reflexivity, Trouble and Repair as Methodological Tools for Interpreting the Unspoken in Discourse-Based Data
Researchers who have attempted to make sense of silence in data have generally considered literal silences or such things as laughter. We consider the analysis of veiled silences where participants speak, but their speaking serves as 'noise' that 'veils', or masks, their inability or unwillingness to talk about a (potentially sensitive) topic. Extending Lisa Mazzei's 'problematic of silence' by using our performativity-performance analytical meth…
Teenage Motherhood and the Regulation of Mothering in the Scientific Literature: The South African Example
The mainstream literature on teenage pregnancy highlights teenagers' inadequate mothering as an area of disquiet. `Revisionists', such as feminist critics, point out that a confluence of negative social factors is implicated in teenagers' mothering abilities. Whether arguing that teenagers make bad mothers or defending them against this, the literature relies on the `invention of "good" mothering'. In this article I highlight the taken-for-grante…
Racializing teenage pregnancy: Culture' and 'tradition' in the South African scientific literature
The signifiers, 'race', 'culture' or 'ethnicity' are utilized in the teenage pregnancy literature (1) to highlight 'differences' in adolescent sexual and reproductive behaviour and (2) as explanatory tools. When 'white' teenagers are the focus of research, psychological explanations are usually invoked, whereas for 'black' teenagers, explanations are socio-cultural in nature. In this article, we explore how, through a process of racialization, th…
Deconstructive Discourse Analysis: Extending the Methodological Conversation
Discourse analysis is increasingly becoming a methodology of preference amongst qualitative researchers. There is a danger, however, of it being viewed as a bounded and uncontested domain of research practice. As discourse analysis is inextricably linked with theoretical issues, it is a dynamic practice that is constantly in a process of revision. In this paper I reflect on some of the conceptualisations undergoing the notion of discourse – conce…
How Content Analysis may Complement and Extend the Insights of Discourse Analysis: An Example of Research on Constructions of Abortion in South African Newspapers 1978–2005
Although discourse analysis is a well-established qualitative research methodology, little attention has been paid to how discourse analysis may be enhanced through careful supplementation with the quantification allowed in content analysis. In this article, we report on a research study that involved the use of both Foucauldian discourse analysis (FDA) and directed content analysis based on social constructionist theory and our qualitative resea…
Teenage Pregnancy and the Construction of Adolescence: Scientific Literature in South Africa
The depiction of teenage pregnancy as a social problem relies on the assumption of adolescence as a separable stage of development. Utilizing a Derridian framework, the author analyses how the dominant construction of adolescence as a transitional stage: (1) acts as an attempt to decide the undecidable (namely, the adolescent who is neither child nor adult, but simultaneously both) - an attempt which collapses in the face of teenage pregnancy; (2…
Reflecting on South African Psychology: Published research, ‘relevance’, and social issues
As South Africa prepared to host the 30th International Congress of Psychology in 2012, a call was made to reflect on the strengths of and challenges facing contemporary South African Psychology. This article presents our response to our brief to focus on social issues by presenting the results of a situational analysis of South African Psychology over the last 5 years and comparing this corpus of data to a similar analysis reported in Macleod. A…
(Dis)allowances of lesbians’ sexual identities: Lesbian identity construction in racialised, classed, familial, and institutional spaces
This article explores how lesbian identity construction is facilitated and constrained by the raced, classed, gendered, familial, and geographical spaces that women occupy. We present a narrative-discursive analysis of eight lesbians’ stories of sexuality, told within a historically white university in South Africa. Three interpretative repertoires that emerged in the narratives are discussed. The ‘disallowance of lesbian identity in particular r…
Feedback of Research Results: Reflections from a Community-Based Mental Health Programme
The lack of feedback of research results to research participants, or the lack of reflection on the feedback process where it does occur, is problematic. Some fundamental issues appear to inform the feedback process, these being the approach adopted by the researchers to research and the uses envisaged for the research and feedback. In this paper, we reflect on feedback sessions conducted with research participants and local community in a commun…
Gender Differences in Mathematics: A Discourse Analysis
Perspectives dealing with the study of gender and mathematics have failed generally to move beyond the individual/society divide. The contradictory nature of subjectivity and the operation and interpenetration of power and knowledge have not been taken into account. This article is based on the post-structuralist framework. The work of Walkerdine, which highlights the processes within the classroom which allow girls to succeed in mathematics but …
What drives public engagement by scientists? An Australian perspective
There is an increasing expectation for more scientists to engage with industry, government, and communities to solve climate change. A group for whom these calls are now prevalent are marine (natural and social) scientists working on environmental change, including climate change. Yet, there is limited empirical evidence of what drives them to embrace or avoid engaging distinct publics, including policymakers. Here, we examined via twenty-eight i…
Abortion in legal, social, and healthcare contexts
Feminism & Psychology going forward
Reflection is fundamental to all feminist practice, and the editorials in Feminism & Psychology (FP and in enthusiasm and excitement about the future and what it may be possible to achieve’ (Wilkinson et al., 1991: 5). Seventeen years later, Nicola Gavey and Virginia Braun took over as editors. Acknowledging its ‘radical promise and sense of transformative possibility’ (Gavey and Braun, 2008: 5), they envisaged that F&P would play a ‘leading role…
White Excellence and Black Failure’: The Reproduction of Racialised Higher Education in Everyday Talk
Since the advent of democracy in South Africa in 1994, much effort has been expended on overcoming the institutionalised racism that characterised apartheid. The transformation of higher education, particularly with regard to the merging and incorporation of institutions, is such an example. This article is an analysis of discourses on race emerging in the talk of students and staff during the incorporation of a historically white satellite campu…
Economic Security and the Social Science Literature on Teenage Pregnancy in South Africa
Feminists have argued that the association made between teenage childbearing and long-term lower socioeconomic status hides a multitude of socially constructed inequalities. I extend this position by analyzing how the association is linked in the South African literature on teenage pregnancy to economic security. I utilize Foucault's conceptualization of the method of security. Security refers to institutions and practices that defend and maintai…
Autonomous adaptation to climate-driven change in marine biodiversity in a global marine hotspot
Gender, abortion and substantive representation in the South African newsprint media
Abortion embedded and embodied in social relations: Challenges for feminist psychology
A contemporary phenomenology of menstruation: Understanding the body in situation and as situation in public health interventions to address menstruation-related challenges
IV. `Who? What: An Uninducted View of Towards a New Psychology of Women from Post-Apartheid South Africa
A Deaf Man's Sign Language - Its Nature and Position Relative to Spoken Languages
Pedagogy and Androgyny in Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre
In an essay of 1835, Karl August Varnhagen von Ense reflected on a curious aspect of Goethe's novel Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, published forty years previously: why, he wondered, had no critical attention been paid to the strange transvestite women who dominate the text?2 They remain an arresting, even troubling, feature of this novel. From the first page of Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, the reader is cast into a deeply perplexing world of sexual …
Gender Differences in Mathematics: A Discourse Analysis
Perspectives dealing with the study of gender and mathematics have failed generally to move beyond the individual/society divide. The contradictory nature of subjectivity and the operation and interpenetration of power and knowledge have not been taken into account. This article is based on the post-structuralist framework. The work of Walkerdine, which highlights the processes within the classroom which allow girls to succeed in mathematics but …
Feedback of Research Results: Reflections from a Community-Based Mental Health Programme
The lack of feedback of research results to research participants, or the lack of reflection on the feedback process where it does occur, is problematic. Some fundamental issues appear to inform the feedback process, these being the approach adopted by the researchers to research and the uses envisaged for the research and feedback. In this paper, we reflect on feedback sessions conducted with research participants and local community in a commun…
Teenage Pregnancy and its ‘Negative’ Consequences: Review of South African Research — Part 1
Teenage pregnancy emerged as a social issue within the United States in the 1970s, and somewhat later in South Africa. In this article I review South African research and literature concerning the consequences of teenage pregnancy, because it is on this level that teenage pregnancy is formulated as a problem. The literature is reviewed against the backdrop of some international research in order to provide a basis for comparison. Research on the …
The ‘Causes’ of Teenage Pregnancy: Review of South African Research — Part 2
This article forms the second of a two-part series in which South African research on teenage pregnancy is reviewed. Part 1 of the series dealt with the consequences of teenage pregnancy; this paper reviews the ‘causes’ thereof. International literature is incorporated in the discussion by way of comparison. Contributory factors which have been investigated by South African researchers include: reproductive ignorance; the earlier occurrence of me…
Sculpture and the Wounds of Language in Clemens Brentano's Godwi
Teenage Motherhood and the Regulation of Mothering in the Scientific Literature: The South African Example
The mainstream literature on teenage pregnancy highlights teenagers' inadequate mothering as an area of disquiet. `Revisionists', such as feminist critics, point out that a confluence of negative social factors is implicated in teenagers' mothering abilities. Whether arguing that teenagers make bad mothers or defending them against this, the literature relies on the `invention of "good" mothering'. In this article I highlight the taken-for-grante…
Deconstructive Discourse Analysis: Extending the Methodological Conversation
Discourse analysis is increasingly becoming a methodology of preference amongst qualitative researchers. There is a danger, however, of it being viewed as a bounded and uncontested domain of research practice. As discourse analysis is inextricably linked with theoretical issues, it is a dynamic practice that is constantly in a process of revision. In this paper I reflect on some of the conceptualisations undergoing the notion of discourse – conce…
Foucauldian Feminism: The Implications of Governmentality
Economic Security and the Social Science Literature on Teenage Pregnancy in South Africa
Feminists have argued that the association made between teenage childbearing and long-term lower socioeconomic status hides a multitude of socially constructed inequalities. I extend this position by analyzing how the association is linked in the South African literature on teenage pregnancy to economic security. I utilize Foucault's conceptualization of the method of security. Security refers to institutions and practices that defend and maintai…
Racializing teenage pregnancy: Culture' and 'tradition' in the South African scientific literature
The signifiers, 'race', 'culture' or 'ethnicity' are utilized in the teenage pregnancy literature (1) to highlight 'differences' in adolescent sexual and reproductive behaviour and (2) as explanatory tools. When 'white' teenagers are the focus of research, psychological explanations are usually invoked, whereas for 'black' teenagers, explanations are socio-cultural in nature. In this article, we explore how, through a process of racialization, th…
Teenage Pregnancy and the Construction of Adolescence: Scientific Literature in South Africa
The depiction of teenage pregnancy as a social problem relies on the assumption of adolescence as a separable stage of development. Utilizing a Derridian framework, the author analyses how the dominant construction of adolescence as a transitional stage: (1) acts as an attempt to decide the undecidable (namely, the adolescent who is neither child nor adult, but simultaneously both) - an attempt which collapses in the face of teenage pregnancy; (2…
South African Psychology and ‘Relevance’: Continuing Challenges
During the apartheid era, psychology was accused of being irrelevant, and of advertently or inadvertently bolstering apartheid. Since 1994, much has changed in psychology. However, much has remained the same. In a situational analysis of research in psychology over the last five years it emerged that quantitative methods based on ‘hard’ science theory, as well as the traditional topics of assessment, psychotherapy, counselling, psychopathology an…
Radical Plural Feminisms and Emancipatory Practice in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Despite ten years of democracy, gross inequities continue to permeate South African society, implying the need for emancipatory theory and practice. Furthermore, despite a minority critical voice, South African psychology, as elsewhere, has been a generally conservative discipline. In this paper I explore how a radical plural feminism provides a resource for liberatory theory/practice. Drawing on Foucauldian discourse and postcolonial insights, t…
White Excellence and Black Failure’: The Reproduction of Racialised Higher Education in Everyday Talk
Since the advent of democracy in South Africa in 1994, much effort has been expended on overcoming the institutionalised racism that characterised apartheid. The transformation of higher education, particularly with regard to the merging and incorporation of institutions, is such an example. This article is an analysis of discourses on race emerging in the talk of students and staff during the incorporation of a historically white satellite campu…
IV. `Who? What: An Uninducted View of Towards a New Psychology of Women from Post-Apartheid South Africa
Why We Should Avoid the use of the Term “Post-Abortion Syndrome”: Commentary on Boulind and Edwards (2008)
Boulind and Edwards (2008) present a case study of Grace, a women suffering, in their words, from post-abortion syndrome (PAS). In this commentary I argue that while Boulind and Edwards' (2008) report is useful in terms of documenting the therapeutic processes engaged in, they would have been better served in not hanging the distress experienced by Grace on the diagnostic category of post-abortion syndrome. Reasons for this are that: PAS is not a…
Efficacité / Efficacy: How To Do Things With Words and Images?
This book aims at offering a broad survey of the encounter between word and image studies and anthropology and to demonstrate the mutual benefits of this dialogue for both disciplines in the three fields of the image (Marin), the social history of writing (Petrucci), and memory (Yates). The themes discussed by the contributors to this volume, all specialists in their field, highlight each in their specific field one or more aspects of the agency …
Efficacité/Efficacy: How to Do Things With Words and Images?
Culture as a discursive resource opposing legal abortion
The notion of ‘culture’ features in the abortion literature to explicate, first, contestation of the meaning of abortion (as in the ‘culture wars’ about abortion), second, the normalisation of abortion in certain countries (as in ‘abortion culture’), third, the response of women to abortion within a particular social milieu and fourth, cross-cultural variability in attitudes towards and experiences of abortion. What is missing is an exploration o…
(Post)-colonial persistence: The presence of the "Black Venus" in the work of Warnauts and Raives
Although largely absent from pre-1939 comic strips depicting imperial conquest, the woman of non-European origin has finally found, to an albeit limited extent, a place in the bande dessinée following the emergence of Francophone post-colonial BDs in the late 1970s. However, this delayed arrival within the frames of the "ninth art" has not rendered the post-colonial woman entirely immune to the established pictorial tropes first used to depict th…
(Dis)allowances of lesbians’ sexual identities: Lesbian identity construction in racialised, classed, familial, and institutional spaces
This article explores how lesbian identity construction is facilitated and constrained by the raced, classed, gendered, familial, and geographical spaces that women occupy. We present a narrative-discursive analysis of eight lesbians’ stories of sexuality, told within a historically white university in South Africa. Three interpretative repertoires that emerged in the narratives are discussed. The ‘disallowance of lesbian identity in particular r…
Deconstructing Developmental Psychology – Twenty years on: Reflections, implications and empirical work
Reflecting on South African Psychology: Published research, ‘relevance’, and social issues
As South Africa prepared to host the 30th International Congress of Psychology in 2012, a call was made to reflect on the strengths of and challenges facing contemporary South African Psychology. This article presents our response to our brief to focus on social issues by presenting the results of a situational analysis of South African Psychology over the last 5 years and comparing this corpus of data to a similar analysis reported in Macleod. A…
Sociology (38 works) · Psychology (29 works) · Political science (27 works) · Gender Studies (23 works) · Gender Studies (17 works) · Law (15 works) · Epistemology (13 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Pregnancy (11 works)