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Emeritus Professor Victoria Marion Grace

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Department: Language, Social and Political Sciences ; Sociology and Anthropology

Email: victoria.grace@canterbury.ac.nz

Phone Number: +64 3 369 3999 ext. 6692

Office: Sociology 306

Language: English

Currently: 1) Jean Baudrillard and theories of the sacrificial, 2) work on non-dualism and language - is consciousness a 'problem'?
About
Research / Creative works
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Fields of Research

  • Critical psychosocial theory in health and medicine
  • Social theory, critical theory, feminist theory
  • The work of Jean Baudrillard

Researcher Summary

Victoria’s fields of research and teaching are interdisciplinary with a focus on psychosocial studies. Her major interests include critical theory, the work of Jean Baudrillard, gender, and research in health and medicine.
Victoria has been the recipient of research grants from the Health Research Council of New Zealand and the Marsden Fund of the Royal Society. She held the Maria Goeppert Mayer International Guest Professorship in Interdisciplinary Research on Women and Gender at the University of Oldenburg, Germany; visiting scholar positions at the University of Toledo, US; the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London; the Nuffield Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Research Unit, University of Oxford; and a three-year term as Adjunct Professor at University College Cork during which she was also a Board member of Moral Foundations of Economy and Society Research Centre, UCC and WIT, Ireland.
Victoria’s writings are on topics related to the work of Jean Baudrillard, Lacanian psychoanalysis, psychosocial health and embodiment, and discourses of DNA as evidence in the forensic context. She has numerous articles and book chapters on various aspects of social and critical theory, and research investigating the interface of social discourse and medicine.
Recent publications include: ‘Jean Baudrillard.’ In Oxford Bibliographies in Literary and Critical Theory. Ed. Eugene O'Brien. New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming’,  'Baudrillard and Lacanian Psychoanalysis' (2022, Routledge), an article outlining a psychosocial interrogation of 'Alzheimer's disease' (2019), and 'Lacanian psychoanalysis and the English Language' (2019), Lacunae: International Journal of Lacanian Psychoanalysis, 19: 38-53.

Subject Area: Disciplines

  • Health and Health Sciences: Other Health Studies
  • Sociology, Social Policy, Social Work, Criminology and Gender Studies: Gender & Sexuality; Sociology

Resources

  • Staff webpage

Research/Scholarly/Creative Works

Authored Books
  • Grace V. (2022) Baudrillard and Lacanian Psychoanalysis. Taylor & Francis. 176.
  • Grace V. (2012) Victims, Gender and Jouissance. New York: Routledge. 178pp.
  • Grace V., Ahuriri-Driscoll A., Midgley G. and Veth J. (2011) Forensic DNA evidence on trial: Science and uncertainty in the courtroom. Arizona: Emergent Publications. 101pp.
  • Grace V. (2000) Baudrillard's Challenge: A feminist reading. London: Routledge. 212pp.
Chapters
  • Grace V. (2009) Gendered Violence and Sacrificial Logics: Psychoanalytic Reflections. In Heberle RJ; Grace V (Ed.), Theorizing Sexual Violence: 31-54. New York: Routledge.
  • Heberle RJ. and Grace V. (2009) Theorizing Sexual Violence: Subjectivity and Politics in Late Modernity. In Heberle RJ; Grace V (Ed.), Theorizing Sexual Violence: 1-13. New York: Routledge.
  • Grace VM. and MacBride-Stewart S. (2008) Metaphors of Injury: Women Make Sense of Pelvic Pain. In Twohig PL; Kalitzkus V (Ed.), Social Studies of Health, Illness and Disease: Perpectives from the Social Sciences and Humanities: 175-192. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
  • Grace V. (2006) Modernity, Medicine and the Sex/Gender Distinction. In Ernst W; Bohle U (Ed.), Naturbilder und Lebensgrundlagen - Konstruktionen von Geschlecht: 142-158. Hamburg: Verlag.
  • Grace VM. (2004) The sex/gender distinction: From feminist postmortem to medical revival. In Potts A; Gavey N; Weatherall A (Ed.), Sex and the Body: 125-143. Palmerston North: Dunmore Press.
  • Grace V. (2003) Medical visualisation: Ontological politics and paradoxes. In Grace V; Worth H; Simmons L (Ed.), Baudrillard West of the Dateline: 189-206. Palmerston North: Dunmore Press.
  • Grace V., Worth H. and Simmons L. (2003) Introduction. In Grace V; Worth H; Simmons L (Ed.), Baudrillard West of the Dateline: 11-19. Palmerston North: Dunmore Press.
  • Grace VM. (2002) Discussant : Pain and the Body Politic. In Rimoldi EC (Ed.), Social and Cultural Studies, Monograph Series, 2: 52-60. Auckland: Massey University.
  • Grace VM. (2002) From 'Feminist Studies' to 'Gender Studies': Challenges to Gender Studies at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. In Flessner H; Potts L (Ed.), Societies in Transition - Challenges to Women's and Gender Studies: 33-42. Opladen: Leske and Budrich.
  • Grace VM. (2001) A Roundtable Discussion with Jacques Derrida. In Simmons L; Worth H (Ed.), Derrida Downunder: Deconstructing (in) the Antipodes: 249-250. Palmerston North: Dunmore Press.
  • Grace VM. (2001) Chronic Pelvic Pain: Sociocultural Perspectives. In MacLean A; Stones RW; Thornton S (Ed.), Pain in Obstetrics and Gynaecology: 12-25. London: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Press.
  • Grace VM. (1998) Researching women's encounters with doctors for pelvic pain: discourse analysis and method. In Du Plessis R; Alice L (Ed.), Feminist Thought in Aotearoa/New Zealand: Differences and Connections: 111-119. Auckland: Oxford University Press.
  • de Ras M. and Grace VM. (1997) Corpus Mobile' Body, gender, sexuality and medicalisation. In de Ras M; Grace V (Ed.), Bodily Boundaries, Sexualised Genders and Medical Discourses: 7-14. Palmerston North: Dunmore Press.
  • Grace VM. (1997) Reading the silent body: women, doctors and pelvic pain. In de Ras M; Grace V (Ed.), Bodily boundaries, sexualised genders and medical discourses: 85-98. Palmerston North: Dunmore Press.
Journal Articles
  • Grace V. (2019) Lacanian Psychoanalysis and the English Language. Lacunae International Journal for Lacanian Paychoanalysis (19): 38-53.
  • Keohane K. and Grace V. (2019) What is ‘Alzheimer’s Disease’? The ‘Auguste D’ Case Re-opened. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry 43(2): 336-359. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11013-019-09622-z.
  • Daniels KR., Grace VM. and Gillett WR. (2011) Factors associated with parents' decisions to tell their adult offspring about the offspring's donor conception. Human Reproduction 26(10): 2783-2790. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/humrep/der247.
  • Diébold L., Pedinielli JL. and Grace VM. (2011) The letter in psychosomatic phenomena of psychotic subjects. Analysis - Journal of the Australian Centre for Psychoanalysis 16: 119-132.
  • Grace V. (2010) The Desiring, Gendered Speakingbeing: Going a Bit Further with Ussher on Women and Depression. Feminism & Psychology 20(2): 272-277. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959353509360566.
  • Toffoletti K. and Grace VM. (2010) Terminal indifference: The Hollywood War Film Post-September 11. Film-Philosophy 14(2): 62-83.
  • Daniels K., Gillett W. and Grace V. (2009) Parental information-sharing with donor insemination-conceived offspring: a follow-up study. Human Reproduction 24(5): 1099-1105.
  • Grace V. (2008) Baudrillard's Illusions: The Seduction of Feminism. French Cultural Studies 19(3): 347-361. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0957155808094945.
  • Grace VM. (2008) Human Genome Epidemiology: Reviewing the Stakes. International Journal of Health Services 38(1): 143-159. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/HS.38.1.h.
  • Grace VM. (2008) Human genome epidemiology: Reviewing the stakes. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEALTH SERVICES 38(1): 143-159. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/HS-38.1.h.
  • Grace VM. (2008) The psychosocial politics of paternity in the case of male donated gametes. Women's Studies International Forum 31(4): 257-262. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2008.05.001.
  • Grace VM., Daniels KR. and Gillett W. (2008) The donor, the father, and the imaginary constitution of the family: Parents' constructions in the case of donor insemination. Social Science & Medicine 66(2): 301-314. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2007.08.029.
  • Grace V. (2007) Beyond dualism in the life sciences: implications for a feminist critique of gender-specific medicine. Journal of Interdisciplinary Feminist Thought 2(1) Article 1: 19pp.
  • Grace V. and MacBride-Stewart S. (2007) How to Say It': Women's Descriptions of Pelvic Pain. Women & Health 46(4): 81-98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/J013v46n04_05.
  • Grace VM. (2007) Orlan - Strange Attractor. Theory & Event 10(4).
  • Grace VM. and Daniels KR. (2007) The (ir)relevance of genetics: engendering parallel worlds of procreation and reproduction. Sociology of Health & Illness 29(5): 692-710. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9566.2007.01010.x.
  • Grace VM. and MacBride-Stewart S. (2007) Women get this': Gendered meanings of chronic pelvic pain. Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine 11(1): 47-67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363459307070803.
  • Vares T., Potts A., Gavey N. and Grace VM. (2007) Reconceptualizing cultural narratives of mature women's sexuality in the Viagra era. Journal of Aging Studies 21(2): 153-164. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2006.08.002.
  • Grace VM. and Zondervan KT. (2006) Chronic Pelvic Pain in Women in New Zealand: Comparative Well-being, Co-morbidity, and Impact on Work and Other Activities. Health Care for Women International 27(7): 585-599. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07399330600803725.
  • Grace VM., Potts A., Gavey N. and Vares T. (2006) The discursive condition of Viagra. Sexualities 9(3): 295-314. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460706065050.
  • Potts A., Grace VM., Vares T. and Gavey N. (2006) Sex for life'? Men's counter-stories on 'erectile dysfunction', male sexuality and ageing. Sociology of Health and Illness 28(3): 306-329. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9566.2006.00494.x.
  • Grace VM. (2004) Baudrillard and the Meaning of Meaning. International Journal of Baudrillard Studies 1(1): 18.
  • Grace VM. and Zondervan KT. (2004) Chronic pelvic pain: prevalence, pain severity, diagnoses and use of the health services. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health 28(4): 369-375.
  • Potts A., Grace V., Gavey N. and Vares T. (2004) "Viagra stories": challenging 'erectile dysfunction'. Social Science & Medicine 59(3): 489-499. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2003.06.001.
  • Grace VM. (2003) Embodiment and Meaning: Understanding Chronic Pelvic Pain. Journal of Consciousness Studies 10(11): 41-60.
  • Potts A., Gavey N., Grace VM. and Vares T. (2003) The downside of Viagra: women's experiences and concerns. Sociology of Health and Illness 25(7): 697-719. http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1467-9566.2003.00366.x.
  • Vares T., Potts A., Gavey N. and Grace VM. (2003) Hard sell, soft sell: Men read Viagra ads. Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy 2003(108): 101-114.
  • Grace VM. (2001) Critical encounters with the medical paradigm: encouraging dialogue. Feminism & Psychology 11(3): 421-428.
  • Potts A., Gavey N. and Grace VM. (2001) New Zealand research on the social impact of sildenafil (Viagra). Venereology: The International Interdisciplinary Journal of Sexual Health 14(4): 189-190.
  • Ryan KM. and Grace VM. (2001) Medicalisation and women's knowledge: the construction of understandings of infant feeding experiences in post-WWII New Zealand. Health Care for Women International 22(5): 483-500.
  • Grace VM. (2000) Pitfalls of the medical paradigm in chronic pelvic pain. Baillière's Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology 14(3): 525-539.
  • Hart B. and Grace VM. (2000) Fatigue in chronic fatigue syndrome: a discourse analysis of women's experiential narratives. Health Care for Women International 21(3): 187-201.
  • Grace VM. (1998) Mind/body dualism in medicine: The case of chronic pelvic pain without organic pathology: a critical review of the literature. International Journal of Health Services 28(1): 127-151.
  • Grace VM. and Arnoux L. (1998) Clean-burning fuel for use in woodstoves: feminist politics, community development and global sustainability. Community Development Journal 33(3): 260-269.
  • Grace VM. (1995) Problems of communication, diagnosis, and treatment experienced by women using the new zealand health services for chronic pelvic pain: A quantitative analysis. Health Care for Women International 16(6): 521-535. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07399339509516207.
  • Grace VM. (1995) Problems women patients experience in the medical encounter for chronic pelvic pain: A new zealand study. Health Care for Women International 16(6): 509-519. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07399339509516206.
Edited Volumes
  • Heberle R. and Grace V. (2009) Theorizing Sexual Violence. New York: Routledge. 234pp.
  • Grace V; Worth H; Simmons L (Ed.) (2003) Baudrillard West of the Dateline. Palmerston North: Dunmore Press. 271.
  • de Ras M. and Grace V. (1997) Bodily Boundaries, Sexualised Genders & Medical Discourses. Palmerston North: Dunmore Press. 191.
Conference Contributions - Other
  • Grace V. (2009) Psychosomatics and the bodily 'symptom'. University of Lausanne, Switzerland: 6th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Critical Health Psychology (ISCHP), 8-11 Jul 2009.
  • Grace VM. (2009) Signifiers, Desire and Disease. Auckland, New Zealand: Centre for Lacanian Analysis 2nd annual Conference: The Pathologies of Enjoyment, 12-15 Feb 2009.
  • Grace V. (2008) Subjectivity at the end of the real. Cardiff, UK: Subjectivity: International Conference in Critical Psychology, Cultural Studies and Social Theory, 27-29 Jun 2008.
  • Grace V. (2007) Narrative and chronic pelvic pain. San Diego, CA, USA: 15th International Pelvic Pain Society (IPPS) Annual Meeting, 25-27 Oct 2007.
  • Grace V., Daniels K. and Gillett W. (2006) The Donor, The Father, and the Imaginary Constitution of the Family: Parents' Constructions in the Case of Donor Insemination. Edinburgh, UK: 38th Annual Conference of the British Sociological Association (BSA) Medical Sociology Group, 14-16 Sep 2006.
  • Grace VM. (2006) Thinking Through Duality: Why is Dualism Problematic? How to Think Non-Dual? Braunschweig University, Germany: International Congress: 'Revisioning the Future: Perspectives in Gender Studies', 4-6 May 2006.
  • Daniels KR., Grace V. and Gillett. (2005) Parental information sharing with DI conceived offspring: a follow-up study. Copenhagen, Denmark: 21st Annual Meeting of The European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology, 1 Jan 2005.
  • Gavey N., Potts A., Grace V. and Vares T. (2003) The other 'Viagra Story': Relationship difficulties following Viagra use by men. Perth, Australia: 3rd Murdoch Symposium on Talk-in-Interaction, 15 Dec 2003.
  • Potts A., Vares T., Grace V. and Gavey N. (2003) Women and Viagra. Christchurch, New Zealand: Australasian Sexual Health Physicians Conference, 1 Jun 2003.
  • Potts A., Vares T., Grace VM. and Gavey N. (2003) On the other end of Viagra: Women's experiences and concerns. Christchurch, New Zealand: Australasian Sexual Health Conference, 4 Jun 2003.
  • Vares T., Potts A., Grace V. and Gavey N. (2002) On the other end of Viagra: Partners' experiences and concerns. Christchurch, New Zealand: Social Science in the 21st Century: Sociological Association of Aotearoa (NZ) Conference, 5 Dec 2002.
Other
  • Grace V. (2010) Feminism/Feminine. : 72-74. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. [Dictionary Entry].
  • Grace V. (2010) Psychoanalysis. : 174-176. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. [Dictionary Entry].
  • Grace V. (2010) Sex/Gender. : 192-193. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. [Dictionary Entry].
  • Grace V. (2010) Transsexuality. : 226-228. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. [Dictionary Entry].
  • Grace V. (2005) Disentangling the Dispersion of Deconstruction - Tilottama Rajan. Deconstruction and the Remainders of Phenomenology: Sartre, Derrida, Foucault, Baudrillard. Stanford University Press, 2002. International Journal of Baudrillard Studies 2(2) [Book Review].
  • Grace V. (2005) Theoretical Engagement Tangential To Postmodern Orthodoxy - Chris Fleming. René Girard. Violence and Mimesis. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2004. International Journal of Baudrillard Studies 2(2) [Book Review].
  • Grace V. (2005) What is Baudrillard "Doing"? International Journal of Baudrillard Studies 2(2) [Editorial].
  • Grace V. (2004) "Who do you rebel against if nothing is forbidden?" - Julia Kristeva and Sylvere Lotringer (Ed.), "Revolt She Said" An Interview By Philippe Petit. New York: Semiotext(e), 2002. International Journal of Baudrillard Studies 1(2) [Book Review].
  • Grace V. (2003) Pathology and the Postmodern. Mental Illness as Discourse and Experience. Fee, Dwight (ed). London: Sage Publications. 2000. Sociological Research Online 8(3) [Book Review].

Research Groups

  • Building Research Capability in the Social Sciences Network (BRCSS Network)
  • Social Science Research Centre (SSRC)

Future Research

  • Jean Baudrillard and theories of the sacrificial
  • Non-dualism and consciousness
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