Cheryl De La Rey
Biographic Data
| ID | 5880708 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cheryl De La Rey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cheryl |
| FAMILY NAME | De La Rey |
| SIGNATURE | DE LA REY C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cape Town |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0653-5343 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 110 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 25 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Peacebuilding as a Gendered Process
Peacebuilding is frequently viewed in terms of post‐conflict societal reconstruction without consideration of cultural context and gender. Using a feminist participatory methodology, this study investigated South African women's understandings of peacebuilding and how these are mediated by gender and context. Sixteen women engaged in dialogue over 2 days. Thematic analysis of the recorded dialogue provided insight into how the 16 South African wo…
Gender, women and leadership
There is an ongoing debate which focuses on the question of whether women have different leadership styles from men. This article offers an overview of current perspectives on gender and leadership. Two opposing views of women and leadership are presented: Firstly, the view that there is little difference between women and men in leadership and secondly, the opposing argument that women have different leadership styles from men. The article sugge…
The Call for Relevance
A number of scholars during the 1980s and early 1990s questioned the relevance of psychology in South Africa. In this paper we characterise the nature of what became known as the ‘relevance debate’, and then investigate whether South African psychology has become more relevant during the nation's first ten years of democracy. Themes which are identified with respect to this issue include the apparent increasing representation of marginalised grou…
Woman Abuse
Violence against women is a widespread social problem affecting millions of women. For more than three decades, researchers have explored the experiences of women in abusive relationships. Victims' accounts have been the main focus, often deflecting attention away from men who are most frequently the perpetrators. Consequently, woman abuse has come to be regarded as a ‘woman's problem’ – blaming women and rendering them responsible for change. Th…
He's a Man, and I'm a Woman”
In South Africa, woman abuse is a pervasive social problem. This article explores how abused women give meaning to their experiences. Narrative interviews were used to investigate 15 women's experiences of violence from their partners. In their narratives, women constructed particular gendered identities, which reflected contradictory and ambiguous subjective experiences. Meanings women attached to their experiences of abuse were filtered through…
Women's meanings of peacebuilding in post-apartheid South Africa
Although women's instrumentality in peacebuilding is internationally recognized, gendered meanings of peacebuilding are poorly understood.Our study was conducted to learn from a diverse group of South African women what peacebuilding means to them.Sixteen women gathered in Cape Town for a 2-day workshop that used feminist participatory methods to gather data about women's meanings of peacebuilding.All talk was audiotaped, transcribed, and analyze…
Work-Family Interaction Strain
The main objective of this study was to identify the coping strategies used by successful South African women of all races in dealing with work-family interaction strain. Using a transactional approach, the study also investigated cognitive appraisal as a key antecedent of coping with work-family interaction strain. A survey was conducted with a sample comprising 110 women in the public, corporate and self-employed sectors of the economy. All the…
Structural asymmetries and peace
This article suggests that where one is positioned in the current geopolitical system is likely to have an influence on whether one feels hope or despair.In this respect material asymmetry as a divisive influence is noted and it is argued that poverty reduction is a crucial component in defining a culture of peace.The need for sharing of resources as envisioned in the definition offered by Boulding is endorsed.Although the reduction of material a…
Making It into Print
Ntokozo Madlala, Ellen Kuzwayo, Marjorie Njeje, Gertrud Strauss, Cheryl de la Rey, Marguerite Poland, Maganthrie Pillay, Making It into Print: Writers Talk about It, Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity, No. 46, The Politics of Writing (2000), pp. 48-54
Societal Transformation
Pubished when Prof. de la Rey was senior lecturer in psychology at the University of Cape Town
Perceptions of psychosocial healing and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa
Like many other societies that have dealt with the question of how to achieve closure of a past of oppression while simultaneously working toward national reconstruction and reconciliation, South Africa turned to the concept of a truth commission.Public testimony constitutes the central mechanism in the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) process.Through the use of social constructionism as a broad framework in which the testi…
Beyond the Masks
CHERYL DE LA REY leads a discussion with AMINA MAMA about the writer's groundbreaking work on black subjectivity. ZINE MAGUBANE presents some of the highlights of the conversation on the book BEYOND THE MASKS, held at the African Gender Institute in Cape Town
Introduction
Gender and Race
Black Scholarship
This ‘article’ serves as introduction to the Special Issue: black scholarship. As such, it outlines the various articles contained in, as well as the rationale for the issue. In this article the authors argue that programmatic anti-racist interventions such as this Special Issue are crucial to the process of redressing the ‘racialised’ patterns of research and authorship characterising mainstream psychology journals
Intragroup Accounts of Teenage Motherhood
Using community based and women-centred perspectives, this study explored experiences of unplanned motherhood during adolescence. Ten African teenage mothers from a semi-rural area in KwaZulu-Natal volunteered to meet once a week for eight weeks to discuss their experiences of pregnancy and motherhood. The findings are discussed in the context of the effect of teenage motherhood on self, on family and peer relationships, traditional Zulu customs,…
Community-based Peer Groups
This paper assesses the use of community-based peer groups as an intervention strategy to provide teenage mothers with an opportunity to share common experiences, receive social support and identify links between personal and social problems. The method utilized in a recent community project on teenage pregnancy is outlined. Over a period of 8 weeks a group of 10 teenage mothers met weekly to share their experiences of pregnancy and motherhood. T…
Community‐based Peer Groups
The Morning After
Sex, Sexuality and Gender
Race and Gender Constraints in SA Road Running
Published when Prof. de la Rey was a lecturer in Psychology at the University of Durban-Westville
Healthwatch
Fat Chance! The Myth of Dieting Explained
Dieting makes you fat! Fat Chance ! examines why so many people spend their lives dieting yet so few ever lose any weight. Up to 70% of women diet at some time in their lives. They want to know why dieting doesn't work, that it is not their fault that they cannot lose weight, and that it is OK to stop dieting. Jane Ogden shows how the process of dieting itself sets you up for failure. She explodes many of the myths about dieting, myths that keep …
Culture, Tradition and Gender
Understanding Intra-Group Variations in Prejudice — The Role of Perceived Legitimacy and Stability
Social Identity Theory predicts that the pattern of intergroup behaviour is a function of the relative status of the groups involved, and the perceived security of this hierarchy. Insecurity of social identity arises if the intergroup situation is seen as unstable and/or illegitimate. In this paper the authors suggest that these factors may also contribute to intra-group variations in outgroup discrimination and hostility. This was empirically in…
He's a Man, and I'm a Woman”
In South Africa, woman abuse is a pervasive social problem. This article explores how abused women give meaning to their experiences. Narrative interviews were used to investigate 15 women's experiences of violence from their partners. In their narratives, women constructed particular gendered identities, which reflected contradictory and ambiguous subjective experiences. Meanings women attached to their experiences of abuse were filtered through…
Perceptions of psychosocial healing and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa
Like many other societies that have dealt with the question of how to achieve closure of a past of oppression while simultaneously working toward national reconstruction and reconciliation, South Africa turned to the concept of a truth commission.Public testimony constitutes the central mechanism in the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) process.Through the use of social constructionism as a broad framework in which the testi…
Introduction
Understanding Intra-Group Variations in Prejudice — The Role of Perceived Legitimacy and Stability
Social Identity Theory predicts that the pattern of intergroup behaviour is a function of the relative status of the groups involved, and the perceived security of this hierarchy. Insecurity of social identity arises if the intergroup situation is seen as unstable and/or illegitimate. In this paper the authors suggest that these factors may also contribute to intra-group variations in outgroup discrimination and hostility. This was empirically in…
The Call for Relevance
A number of scholars during the 1980s and early 1990s questioned the relevance of psychology in South Africa. In this paper we characterise the nature of what became known as the ‘relevance debate’, and then investigate whether South African psychology has become more relevant during the nation's first ten years of democracy. Themes which are identified with respect to this issue include the apparent increasing representation of marginalised grou…
Woman Abuse
Violence against women is a widespread social problem affecting millions of women. For more than three decades, researchers have explored the experiences of women in abusive relationships. Victims' accounts have been the main focus, often deflecting attention away from men who are most frequently the perpetrators. Consequently, woman abuse has come to be regarded as a ‘woman's problem’ – blaming women and rendering them responsible for change. Th…
Gender and Race
Black Scholarship
This ‘article’ serves as introduction to the Special Issue: black scholarship. As such, it outlines the various articles contained in, as well as the rationale for the issue. In this article the authors argue that programmatic anti-racist interventions such as this Special Issue are crucial to the process of redressing the ‘racialised’ patterns of research and authorship characterising mainstream psychology journals
Intragroup Accounts of Teenage Motherhood
Using community based and women-centred perspectives, this study explored experiences of unplanned motherhood during adolescence. Ten African teenage mothers from a semi-rural area in KwaZulu-Natal volunteered to meet once a week for eight weeks to discuss their experiences of pregnancy and motherhood. The findings are discussed in the context of the effect of teenage motherhood on self, on family and peer relationships, traditional Zulu customs,…
Peacebuilding as a Gendered Process
Peacebuilding is frequently viewed in terms of post‐conflict societal reconstruction without consideration of cultural context and gender. Using a feminist participatory methodology, this study investigated South African women's understandings of peacebuilding and how these are mediated by gender and context. Sixteen women engaged in dialogue over 2 days. Thematic analysis of the recorded dialogue provided insight into how the 16 South African wo…
Gender, women and leadership
There is an ongoing debate which focuses on the question of whether women have different leadership styles from men. This article offers an overview of current perspectives on gender and leadership. Two opposing views of women and leadership are presented: Firstly, the view that there is little difference between women and men in leadership and secondly, the opposing argument that women have different leadership styles from men. The article sugge…
Work-Family Interaction Strain
The main objective of this study was to identify the coping strategies used by successful South African women of all races in dealing with work-family interaction strain. Using a transactional approach, the study also investigated cognitive appraisal as a key antecedent of coping with work-family interaction strain. A survey was conducted with a sample comprising 110 women in the public, corporate and self-employed sectors of the economy. All the…
Fat Chance! The Myth of Dieting Explained
Dieting makes you fat! Fat Chance ! examines why so many people spend their lives dieting yet so few ever lose any weight. Up to 70% of women diet at some time in their lives. They want to know why dieting doesn't work, that it is not their fault that they cannot lose weight, and that it is OK to stop dieting. Jane Ogden shows how the process of dieting itself sets you up for failure. She explodes many of the myths about dieting, myths that keep …
Women's meanings of peacebuilding in post-apartheid South Africa
Although women's instrumentality in peacebuilding is internationally recognized, gendered meanings of peacebuilding are poorly understood.Our study was conducted to learn from a diverse group of South African women what peacebuilding means to them.Sixteen women gathered in Cape Town for a 2-day workshop that used feminist participatory methods to gather data about women's meanings of peacebuilding.All talk was audiotaped, transcribed, and analyze…
Societal Transformation
Pubished when Prof. de la Rey was senior lecturer in psychology at the University of Cape Town
Beyond the Masks
CHERYL DE LA REY leads a discussion with AMINA MAMA about the writer's groundbreaking work on black subjectivity. ZINE MAGUBANE presents some of the highlights of the conversation on the book BEYOND THE MASKS, held at the African Gender Institute in Cape Town
Culture, Tradition and Gender
Understanding Intra-Group Variations in Prejudice — The Role of Perceived Legitimacy and Stability
Social Identity Theory predicts that the pattern of intergroup behaviour is a function of the relative status of the groups involved, and the perceived security of this hierarchy. Insecurity of social identity arises if the intergroup situation is seen as unstable and/or illegitimate. In this paper the authors suggest that these factors may also contribute to intra-group variations in outgroup discrimination and hostility. This was empirically in…
Fat Chance! The Myth of Dieting Explained
Dieting makes you fat! Fat Chance ! examines why so many people spend their lives dieting yet so few ever lose any weight. Up to 70% of women diet at some time in their lives. They want to know why dieting doesn't work, that it is not their fault that they cannot lose weight, and that it is OK to stop dieting. Jane Ogden shows how the process of dieting itself sets you up for failure. She explodes many of the myths about dieting, myths that keep …
Culture, Tradition and Gender
Race and Gender Constraints in SA Road Running
Published when Prof. de la Rey was a lecturer in Psychology at the University of Durban-Westville
Healthwatch
Community-based Peer Groups
This paper assesses the use of community-based peer groups as an intervention strategy to provide teenage mothers with an opportunity to share common experiences, receive social support and identify links between personal and social problems. The method utilized in a recent community project on teenage pregnancy is outlined. Over a period of 8 weeks a group of 10 teenage mothers met weekly to share their experiences of pregnancy and motherhood. T…
Community‐based Peer Groups
The Morning After
Sex, Sexuality and Gender
Beyond the Masks
CHERYL DE LA REY leads a discussion with AMINA MAMA about the writer's groundbreaking work on black subjectivity. ZINE MAGUBANE presents some of the highlights of the conversation on the book BEYOND THE MASKS, held at the African Gender Institute in Cape Town
Introduction
Gender and Race
Black Scholarship
This ‘article’ serves as introduction to the Special Issue: black scholarship. As such, it outlines the various articles contained in, as well as the rationale for the issue. In this article the authors argue that programmatic anti-racist interventions such as this Special Issue are crucial to the process of redressing the ‘racialised’ patterns of research and authorship characterising mainstream psychology journals
Intragroup Accounts of Teenage Motherhood
Using community based and women-centred perspectives, this study explored experiences of unplanned motherhood during adolescence. Ten African teenage mothers from a semi-rural area in KwaZulu-Natal volunteered to meet once a week for eight weeks to discuss their experiences of pregnancy and motherhood. The findings are discussed in the context of the effect of teenage motherhood on self, on family and peer relationships, traditional Zulu customs,…
Perceptions of psychosocial healing and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa
Like many other societies that have dealt with the question of how to achieve closure of a past of oppression while simultaneously working toward national reconstruction and reconciliation, South Africa turned to the concept of a truth commission.Public testimony constitutes the central mechanism in the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) process.Through the use of social constructionism as a broad framework in which the testi…
Societal Transformation
Pubished when Prof. de la Rey was senior lecturer in psychology at the University of Cape Town
Structural asymmetries and peace
This article suggests that where one is positioned in the current geopolitical system is likely to have an influence on whether one feels hope or despair.In this respect material asymmetry as a divisive influence is noted and it is argued that poverty reduction is a crucial component in defining a culture of peace.The need for sharing of resources as envisioned in the definition offered by Boulding is endorsed.Although the reduction of material a…
Making It into Print
Ntokozo Madlala, Ellen Kuzwayo, Marjorie Njeje, Gertrud Strauss, Cheryl de la Rey, Marguerite Poland, Maganthrie Pillay, Making It into Print: Writers Talk about It, Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity, No. 46, The Politics of Writing (2000), pp. 48-54
Women's meanings of peacebuilding in post-apartheid South Africa
Although women's instrumentality in peacebuilding is internationally recognized, gendered meanings of peacebuilding are poorly understood.Our study was conducted to learn from a diverse group of South African women what peacebuilding means to them.Sixteen women gathered in Cape Town for a 2-day workshop that used feminist participatory methods to gather data about women's meanings of peacebuilding.All talk was audiotaped, transcribed, and analyze…
Work-Family Interaction Strain
The main objective of this study was to identify the coping strategies used by successful South African women of all races in dealing with work-family interaction strain. Using a transactional approach, the study also investigated cognitive appraisal as a key antecedent of coping with work-family interaction strain. A survey was conducted with a sample comprising 110 women in the public, corporate and self-employed sectors of the economy. All the…
He's a Man, and I'm a Woman”
In South Africa, woman abuse is a pervasive social problem. This article explores how abused women give meaning to their experiences. Narrative interviews were used to investigate 15 women's experiences of violence from their partners. In their narratives, women constructed particular gendered identities, which reflected contradictory and ambiguous subjective experiences. Meanings women attached to their experiences of abuse were filtered through…
The Call for Relevance
A number of scholars during the 1980s and early 1990s questioned the relevance of psychology in South Africa. In this paper we characterise the nature of what became known as the ‘relevance debate’, and then investigate whether South African psychology has become more relevant during the nation's first ten years of democracy. Themes which are identified with respect to this issue include the apparent increasing representation of marginalised grou…
Woman Abuse
Violence against women is a widespread social problem affecting millions of women. For more than three decades, researchers have explored the experiences of women in abusive relationships. Victims' accounts have been the main focus, often deflecting attention away from men who are most frequently the perpetrators. Consequently, woman abuse has come to be regarded as a ‘woman's problem’ – blaming women and rendering them responsible for change. Th…
Gender, women and leadership
There is an ongoing debate which focuses on the question of whether women have different leadership styles from men. This article offers an overview of current perspectives on gender and leadership. Two opposing views of women and leadership are presented: Firstly, the view that there is little difference between women and men in leadership and secondly, the opposing argument that women have different leadership styles from men. The article sugge…
Peacebuilding as a Gendered Process
Peacebuilding is frequently viewed in terms of post‐conflict societal reconstruction without consideration of cultural context and gender. Using a feminist participatory methodology, this study investigated South African women's understandings of peacebuilding and how these are mediated by gender and context. Sixteen women engaged in dialogue over 2 days. Thematic analysis of the recorded dialogue provided insight into how the 16 South African wo…
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