Postmodern feminist perspectives and nursing research: a passionately interested form of inquiry

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Abstract

The challenges posed by postmodern and poststructural theories profoundly disrupt the certainties of feminist and nursing research, yet at the same time offer possibilities for developing new epistemologies. While there are an increasing number of accounts discussing the theoretical implications of these ideas for nursing research, I wish to discuss the practical and the methodological implications of using postmodern feminist theories within empirical research. In particular, I identify the challenges I encountered through an examination of specific aspects of the research process and through examples drawn from empirical research. I conclude that using postmodern feminist theories requires a continuous engagement with, and interrogation of, the modern epistemological and ontological assumptions of qualitative, feminist nursing research and, in so doing, presents the possibility for nurse scholars to begin to develop a 'passionately interested' methodological approach to nursing inquiry.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)135-143
Number of pages9
JournalNursing Inquiry
Volume13
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jun 2006

Keywords

  • emancipatory, feminism, methodology, postmodern, reflexivity

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