Floretta Boonzaier

Floretta Avril Boonzaier (born 1974) is a South African psychologist and gender studies academic affiliated with the University of Cape Town. She is noted for her work in feminist, critical and postcolonial psychologies, subjectivity in relation to race, gender and sexuality, and gender-based violence, and qualitative psychologies, especially narrative, discursive and participatory methods.^[1]

Career

She obtained a PhD in psychology with a dissertation that focused on the construction of subjectivities in relation to violence in intimate heterosexual relationships at the University of Cape Town in 2005. She has been a lecturer, senior lecturer and is now associate professor at the Department of Psychology at the University of Cape Town. She was a Mandela Fellow at the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University from 2009 to 2010.^[2][3]

She is one of the leaders of the Black Academic Caucus at the University of Cape Town and has been involved in South African debates on rape culture and the Rhodes Must Fall debate. She is also a member of the board of directors of the NGO Resources Aimed at the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect.^[4]

Awards

She received the South African Women in Science Award from the Department of Science and Technology in 2010.^[3][5]

Selected bibliography

• The Gender of Psychology, Juta Academic, 2006
• South African Women Living with HIV: Global Lessons from Local Voices, Indiana University Press, 2013

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