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Examining our privileges and oppressions: incorporating an intersectionality paradigm into nursing.
- Source :
- Nursing Inquiry; Mar2011, Vol. 18 Issue 1, p29-39, 11p
- Publication Year :
- 2011
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Abstract
- VAN HERK KA, SMITH D and ANDREW C. Nursing Inquiry 2011; : 29-39 An intersectionality paradigm is a means by which nurses can attend to issues of oppression and privilege within their practice and profession. Intersectionality is introduced as an essential theory to help debunk the hegemony of the 'white, middle class' perspective that often directs nursing research, practice, and education. The values and benefits of using an intersectionality paradigm in nursing are shown through recent research done with Aboriginal women. These findings contribute to an increased understanding of the importance and necessity of attending to the power relations that dominate nursing care encounters and influence the way nurses provide care. By acknowledging and responding to the presence of privilege and oppression and the associated power dynamics within the therapeutic encounter, nursing can strive further in helping to alleviate social injustices and health disparities that arise from unequal power relations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- FIRST Nations of Canada
CANADIAN Inuit
ATTITUDE (Psychology)
CULTURE
HEALTH services accessibility
INTERVIEWING
MEDICAL personnel
METROPOLITAN areas
PARADIGMS (Social sciences)
POWER (Social sciences)
RACE
RACISM
RESEARCH funding
SEX distribution
SEXISM
SOCIAL classes
SOCIAL justice
SOCIAL values
THEORY
JUDGMENT sampling
SECONDARY analysis
SOCIOECONOMIC factors
THEMATIC analysis
FIELD notes (Science)
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13207881
- Volume :
- 18
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Nursing Inquiry
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 104998414
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1800.2011.00539.x