Pretorius Liezille, Naidoo Av, Reddy S P
Department of Psychology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
Soc Work Public Health. 2009 Jan-Apr;24(1-2):89-99. doi: 10.1080/19371910802569575.
How Black women are represented, conceptualized, and researched in the field of psychology has dramatic and far-reaching effects on arriving at an understanding of personality and psychopathology. This point becomes especially salient as researchers try to develop alternative strategies for researching gendered experiences and for generating meaningful information about African women's experiences of alcohol misuse. On the African continent, there is a paucity of research on Black women's access to alcohol treatment. Therefore, this review has implications for research and practice with the potential to stimulate future health disparities research affecting Black African women. The article focuses on a South African population and explores the importance of theorizing alcohol misuse and sex by discussing the history of alcohol misuse in South Africa, women and alcohol misuse in South Africa, and women's treatment history; interpreting women's experiences of treatment; and addressing recommendations for future research.
在心理学领域，黑人女性是如何被呈现、概念化以及研究的，这对理解人格和精神病理学有着巨大且深远的影响。随着研究人员试图开发研究性别化经历的替代策略，并生成有关非洲女性酒精滥用经历的有意义信息时，这一点变得尤为突出。在非洲大陆，关于黑人女性获得酒精治疗的研究匮乏。因此，本综述对研究和实践具有启示意义，有可能激发未来影响非洲黑人女性的健康差异研究。本文聚焦于南非人群，通过讨论南非酒精滥用的历史、南非女性与酒精滥用以及女性的治疗史；解读女性的治疗经历；并提出未来研究的建议，探讨了对酒精滥用和性别进行理论化的重要性。
