Lou-Marié Kruger
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 630829 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Lou-Marié Kruger |
| PRENOMES | Lou-Marié |
| SOBRENOME | Kruger |
| ASSINATURA | KRUGER L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Stellenbosch University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 50 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1999 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Some Melancholic Musings About the Slow Intimacy of Grief
Intimacy then is about continuous processes of paying attention and getting to know as there always is more to know. This knowing may be impossible to show. I argue that during the process of grieving the elegy is an example of showing the not-knowing. I discuss this argument by presenting three individual elegies. In a postscript, the work of Judith Butler and Diana Fuss is used to argue that as social scientists, our work is to write elegies fo…
Feminist Encounters
Editorial: Special Issue on Slow Intimacy
Gossip girls
This study explores the ways in which a particular group of early-adolescent coloured girls subjectively experience and understand gossip. Social constructionist grounded theory was applied to analyse qualitative data yielded by conducting feminist psychodynamic group therapy with three groups of girls aged 13–14. The discussion of the results was informed by the principles of discursive psychology and psychoanalytic theory. Gossip, as a form of …
The Emotional Experience of Motherhood in Planned Lesbian Families in the South African Context
This article focuses on lesbian mothers' emotional experience of motherhood. It forms part of a larger qualitative and exploratory study with 10 lesbian couples in South Africa on their lived experience of planned motherhood. The study is located in a feminist phenomenological framework. Semi-structured interviews were conducted and interview transcripts were analyzed using thematic analysis. Participants described many different emotions associa…
Motherhood and the “Madness of Hunger”
Masculinity, sexuality and vulnerability in ‘working’ with young men in South African contexts
South Africa has seen a rapid increase in scholarship and programmatic interventions focusing on gender and sexuality, and more recently on boys, men and masculinities. In this paper, we argue that a deterministic discourse on men's sexuality and masculinity in general is inherent in many current understandings of adolescent male sexuality, which tend to assume that young women are vulnerable and powerless and young men are sexually powerful and …
The Whales Beneath the Surface
In this article I attempt to show how research ideals of social change and usefulness can lead to "research paralysis." I also argue that if there is sufficient reflexivity about the research process itself, paralysis is not inevitable, and useful knowledge can indeed be generated. I substantiate this by illustrating how the same interview data can be analyzed on multiple levels, rendering it useful in different ways in different contexts. I thus…
The melancholy of murderous mothers
Informed by recent feminist critiques of the notion of depression, we explored how a group of South African low-income mothers who have been diagnosed with depression subjectively describe and explain their psychological distress. Working within a feminist materialist-discursive framework, we focused both on the explicit content of what the women were saying and on the implicit or underlying discourses that informed their narratives. Our findings…
An exploration of German subjectivity three generations after the end of World War Two
This qualitative study aimed to explore how grandchildren of Second-World-War-generation Germans talk about and make meaning of their national past. Operating from a social constructionist stance, semistructured individual narrative/biographical interviews were conducted to collect the data. These constructed narratives were analyzed drawing on intersubjective psychoanalytic theory to identify the relational affective investments (organizing prin…
Om Langs Die Pad Te Kraam’
This article focuses on the phenomenon of pregnant women not acknowledging their pregnancies. Such women typically enter the health care system at a late stage and thus get little or no prenatal care. The phenomenon of undisclosed pregnancy is explored by focusing on two case studies of pregnant research participants in a project concerned with the psychological distress of female farm workers in the Western Cape. These two pregnant women were in…
Mothers, daughters and sexual agency in one low-income South African community
Reflections on the Sexual Agency of Young Women in a Low-Income Rural South African Community
Reproductive health issues are pertinent in the mental health development of young women in South Africa, especially young women in low-income communities. The prevalence of problems such as HIV/AIDS and unplanned or unwanted pregnancies among South African female adolescents specifically warrants urgent attention. It is argued that inadequate theoretical frameworks and inadequate data on sexuality in different South African communities hamper ef…
Narrating Motherhood
In contemporary western society, motherhood has acquired a special significance for women: women are expected to find fulfilment and satisfaction in the role of the “ever-bountiful, ever-giving, self-sacrificing mother. Feminists, in attempts to problematise this ”myth of motherhood”, have emphasised the importance of focusing on the subjectivity of women by advocating that women themselves speak of, and reflect on their experiences of motherhood…
Reflections on a Feminist Research Project
This article describes the group process in a feminist research project on resiliency in adult women survivors of childhood sexual abuse. Memos written by members of the research team that were content analyzed independently provided the major source of data. Researchers' subjectivity, members' expectations for intimacy, and the role of power were examined. We describe how group members learned that taking the researcher's subjectivity into accou…
Mothers, daughters and sexual agency in one low-income South African community
Reflections on a Feminist Research Project
This article describes the group process in a feminist research project on resiliency in adult women survivors of childhood sexual abuse. Memos written by members of the research team that were content analyzed independently provided the major source of data. Researchers' subjectivity, members' expectations for intimacy, and the role of power were examined. We describe how group members learned that taking the researcher's subjectivity into accou…
The melancholy of murderous mothers
Informed by recent feminist critiques of the notion of depression, we explored how a group of South African low-income mothers who have been diagnosed with depression subjectively describe and explain their psychological distress. Working within a feminist materialist-discursive framework, we focused both on the explicit content of what the women were saying and on the implicit or underlying discourses that informed their narratives. Our findings…
Narrating Motherhood
In contemporary western society, motherhood has acquired a special significance for women: women are expected to find fulfilment and satisfaction in the role of the “ever-bountiful, ever-giving, self-sacrificing mother. Feminists, in attempts to problematise this ”myth of motherhood”, have emphasised the importance of focusing on the subjectivity of women by advocating that women themselves speak of, and reflect on their experiences of motherhood…
Om Langs Die Pad Te Kraam’
This article focuses on the phenomenon of pregnant women not acknowledging their pregnancies. Such women typically enter the health care system at a late stage and thus get little or no prenatal care. The phenomenon of undisclosed pregnancy is explored by focusing on two case studies of pregnant research participants in a project concerned with the psychological distress of female farm workers in the Western Cape. These two pregnant women were in…
Motherhood and the “Madness of Hunger”
Reflections on the Sexual Agency of Young Women in a Low-Income Rural South African Community
Reproductive health issues are pertinent in the mental health development of young women in South Africa, especially young women in low-income communities. The prevalence of problems such as HIV/AIDS and unplanned or unwanted pregnancies among South African female adolescents specifically warrants urgent attention. It is argued that inadequate theoretical frameworks and inadequate data on sexuality in different South African communities hamper ef…
Some Melancholic Musings About the Slow Intimacy of Grief
Intimacy then is about continuous processes of paying attention and getting to know as there always is more to know. This knowing may be impossible to show. I argue that during the process of grieving the elegy is an example of showing the not-knowing. I discuss this argument by presenting three individual elegies. In a postscript, the work of Judith Butler and Diana Fuss is used to argue that as social scientists, our work is to write elegies fo…
Feminist Encounters
Editorial: Special Issue on Slow Intimacy
The Emotional Experience of Motherhood in Planned Lesbian Families in the South African Context
This article focuses on lesbian mothers' emotional experience of motherhood. It forms part of a larger qualitative and exploratory study with 10 lesbian couples in South Africa on their lived experience of planned motherhood. The study is located in a feminist phenomenological framework. Semi-structured interviews were conducted and interview transcripts were analyzed using thematic analysis. Participants described many different emotions associa…
Reflections on a Feminist Research Project
This article describes the group process in a feminist research project on resiliency in adult women survivors of childhood sexual abuse. Memos written by members of the research team that were content analyzed independently provided the major source of data. Researchers' subjectivity, members' expectations for intimacy, and the role of power were examined. We describe how group members learned that taking the researcher's subjectivity into accou…
Narrating Motherhood
In contemporary western society, motherhood has acquired a special significance for women: women are expected to find fulfilment and satisfaction in the role of the “ever-bountiful, ever-giving, self-sacrificing mother. Feminists, in attempts to problematise this ”myth of motherhood”, have emphasised the importance of focusing on the subjectivity of women by advocating that women themselves speak of, and reflect on their experiences of motherhood…
Reflections on the Sexual Agency of Young Women in a Low-Income Rural South African Community
Reproductive health issues are pertinent in the mental health development of young women in South Africa, especially young women in low-income communities. The prevalence of problems such as HIV/AIDS and unplanned or unwanted pregnancies among South African female adolescents specifically warrants urgent attention. It is argued that inadequate theoretical frameworks and inadequate data on sexuality in different South African communities hamper ef…
Mothers, daughters and sexual agency in one low-income South African community
Om Langs Die Pad Te Kraam’
This article focuses on the phenomenon of pregnant women not acknowledging their pregnancies. Such women typically enter the health care system at a late stage and thus get little or no prenatal care. The phenomenon of undisclosed pregnancy is explored by focusing on two case studies of pregnant research participants in a project concerned with the psychological distress of female farm workers in the Western Cape. These two pregnant women were in…
An exploration of German subjectivity three generations after the end of World War Two
This qualitative study aimed to explore how grandchildren of Second-World-War-generation Germans talk about and make meaning of their national past. Operating from a social constructionist stance, semistructured individual narrative/biographical interviews were conducted to collect the data. These constructed narratives were analyzed drawing on intersubjective psychoanalytic theory to identify the relational affective investments (organizing prin…
The Whales Beneath the Surface
In this article I attempt to show how research ideals of social change and usefulness can lead to "research paralysis." I also argue that if there is sufficient reflexivity about the research process itself, paralysis is not inevitable, and useful knowledge can indeed be generated. I substantiate this by illustrating how the same interview data can be analyzed on multiple levels, rendering it useful in different ways in different contexts. I thus…
The melancholy of murderous mothers
Informed by recent feminist critiques of the notion of depression, we explored how a group of South African low-income mothers who have been diagnosed with depression subjectively describe and explain their psychological distress. Working within a feminist materialist-discursive framework, we focused both on the explicit content of what the women were saying and on the implicit or underlying discourses that informed their narratives. Our findings…
Masculinity, sexuality and vulnerability in ‘working’ with young men in South African contexts
South Africa has seen a rapid increase in scholarship and programmatic interventions focusing on gender and sexuality, and more recently on boys, men and masculinities. In this paper, we argue that a deterministic discourse on men's sexuality and masculinity in general is inherent in many current understandings of adolescent male sexuality, which tend to assume that young women are vulnerable and powerless and young men are sexually powerful and …
Motherhood and the “Madness of Hunger”
Gossip girls
This study explores the ways in which a particular group of early-adolescent coloured girls subjectively experience and understand gossip. Social constructionist grounded theory was applied to analyse qualitative data yielded by conducting feminist psychodynamic group therapy with three groups of girls aged 13–14. The discussion of the results was informed by the principles of discursive psychology and psychoanalytic theory. Gossip, as a form of …
The Emotional Experience of Motherhood in Planned Lesbian Families in the South African Context
This article focuses on lesbian mothers' emotional experience of motherhood. It forms part of a larger qualitative and exploratory study with 10 lesbian couples in South Africa on their lived experience of planned motherhood. The study is located in a feminist phenomenological framework. Semi-structured interviews were conducted and interview transcripts were analyzed using thematic analysis. Participants described many different emotions associa…
Some Melancholic Musings About the Slow Intimacy of Grief
Intimacy then is about continuous processes of paying attention and getting to know as there always is more to know. This knowing may be impossible to show. I argue that during the process of grieving the elegy is an example of showing the not-knowing. I discuss this argument by presenting three individual elegies. In a postscript, the work of Judith Butler and Diana Fuss is used to argue that as social scientists, our work is to write elegies fo…
Feminist Encounters
Editorial: Special Issue on Slow Intimacy
Psychology (14 obras) · Gender Studies (10 obras) · Sociology (9 obras) · Social Psychology (8 obras) · Developmental psychology (7 obras) · Gender Studies (6 obras) · Social Psychology (6 obras) · Psychoanalysis (5 obras) · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (4 obras) · Human sexuality (4 obras)