Critical Methods Society Edited by Martin Terre Blanche & Johan Kruger The Body Politic [Mail & Guardian report on the conference] Conference organisers: Brynn Binnell, Claudia Landsman, Neil Lightfoot, Cathi Michelson, Martin Terre Blanche, Vasi van Deventer, Kenneth Wilson and Estel Zietkewics. i Preface Martin Terre Blanche & Johan Krugerii Opening address and welcome Wilhelm Jordaan iv Historical note Victor Nell PART ONE - Race, Ethnicity and Nationality 2 Black bodies, white gaze: Western medicine and the African in South Africa Alex Butchart 8 If the glove fits...O.J. Simpson and the U.S. imaginary Kum-Kum Bhavnani 14 By birth and blood: Bi-racialised bodies and the poetics and problematics of psychic performance in the English-African diaspora Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe 16 Xenophobes, Visual Terrorism and the African Subject Robin Chandler A Theory of Racism and Sexuality Paula Henning Mobilising the 'National Body': The case of Margaret Thatcher and the Falklands/Malvinas conflict Mark Levine 17 "Healing the nation"? The South African Truth and Reconcilaition Commission Simon Stacey Measuring the secular trend in South Africa: Did apartheid make us shorter? Goran Strkalj 18 My travels through Boerrasic Park: An exploration of the racial demarcation/delineation of bodies Brynn Binnell 20 Mind, gender, and culture: A critical evaluation of the phenomenon of Tokoloshe "sightings" among prepubescent girls in Kwazulu-Natal Nhlanhla Mkhize 21 Discussion group: Useful Objects Penny Siopis & Kaolin Thompson 22 Stealing the Wind From the Men - Women windsurfers and gendered embodiment Val Woodward 27 Theory as a rewriting: Reading the anorexic body through a post-colonial lens Sharon Fuller 37 Abnormal eating attitudes in an urban setting: evidence of the Homogenisation of a multi-ethnic society? Christopher Paul Szabo 39 Manifestations of the body in early German social policy: The German 'Bund fuer Mutterschutz' (Federation for the Protection of Mothers) Regine Heidenreich 43 Dads in ads Charlotte Hagstrom 43 Mirrors of Motherhood Helen Terre Blanche 44 Gifts of the body. Rethinking intergenerational heritage Dagmar Lorenz-Meyer 52 Producing the mothers of the nation: family rhetoric, the logic of eugenics, and U.S. population policies Patricia Hill Collins 57 The cyborg and religious views on the female body Christina Landman 60 "No more I love yous": Gender moving into the androgynous twilight zone Amanda du Preez 64 Tamara de Lempicka: The Body Propped and Unpropped Laura Claridge 65 Orgasms, needs, fun and romance: Dr Delvin's sex advice for women Lindy Wilbraham |
68 Arriving in gender-fuck drag squirming with queer exhibitionistic anticipation as Eddie prepares to pierce my foreskin Vasili Kapetanakis alias Dame Collonica Drek 69 New visual strategies: Re-presenting gay identities in a second AIDS-decade Hentie van der Merwe 73 Challenge research on homosexuality Anthony Theuninck 82 The headmaster's study K J Kelly & S Sedumedi 88 Intergenerational relationships vs child-sexual abuse Keven Bishop 94 Sex machine (part 2): The cybernetic body James Sey 97 Queory: Problems Arising from Presenting the Gay and Lesbian Art exhibition GAY RIGHTS RITES RE-WRITES 1995-1996 Joan Bellis PART FOUR - Applications and special contexts 100 Dangerous bodies: surgical decision-making in BRCA1 mutation carriers Nina Hallowell 104 Avoidance coping stategies for minimizing the impact of HIV or "Help is the Sunny side of Control." Jo-Anne Stein 107 MINDSCAPES: Embodiments of souls Alastair Mundy-Castle 112 Dialogical space, differance, and desire: conversations on the margins Andrew Favell 119 Story-telling and the socialization of rural pre-school children in times of social change Mary van der Riet 131 A discursive analysis of schizophrenic speech with mystical features or Schizophrenia and Mystical or Religious Experience Louisa Velis 133 Funding cuts - resulting in creative and imaginative solutions Mrs. H Jones, Sr. Lorraine & Mr Hamel 134 BE-ING NATURAL Brandon Pleaner Crowd psychology and social control Kevin Durrheim The formation of a subcultural identity, exemplified in rave culture: Postmodern candy floss or a possible solution to the failures of a modern world? Heleniq Argyrou 135 Elevator Etiquette James Dawson & Jo-Ann Scott PART FIVE - Bodies of knowledge 138 Phenomenology as a viable methodological approach to the study of indigenous healing Tholene Sodi 142 The hermeneutics of distanciation in programme evaluation K J Kelly 147 "You wanna sit around and just explicate, or come upstairs and see my hermeneutics?" Gavin Ivey 151 THE POLITIC OF THE BODY (in the motion of the ocean) Vasi van Deventer 156 The body impolitic of silence HC van Rensburg 160 Bodies of knowledge: Processes of learning Gudrun Kober 165 PRINCALS analysis: Why PRINCALS to analyse qualitative data? Prof. Dr. H.W. Kruijsse 169 An overview of computer aided qualitative data analysis techniques Catherine Payze 174 Qualitative Research in South Africa: Methodological and Ethical Concerns Paula Henning 179 Qualitative research: A body divided against itself? Cora Moore & Teria Shantall 183 User guidelines for research methodology in the social sciences: An ecosystemic theoretical perspective Carina Fiedeldey-Van Dijk 188 Dualities and body types Dain Peters 195 Inspecting the body of the "general individual": towards a critical social theory of human personality Kenneth G. Wilson 197 Subtitle: Vile Retentions Moshekwa Langa |