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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Art, science, or both? Keeping the care in nursing.

29 Nov 2009 Nursing is widely considered as an art and a science, wherein caring forms the theoretical framework of nursing. Nursing and caring are grounded in a relational understanding, unity, and connection between the professional nurse and the patient. ... Read more...

Expressing yourself: a feminist analysis of talk around expressing breast milk.

27 Jul 2009 Recent feminist analyses, particularly from those working within a poststructuralist framework, have highlighted a number of historically located and contradictory socio-cultural constructions and practices which women are faced with when ... Read more...

Lived religion: implications for nursing ethics.

29 Jun 2009 This article explores how ethics and religion interface in everyday life by drawing on a study examining the negotiation of religious and spiritual plurality in health care. Employing methods of critical ethnography, namely, interviews and ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Feminism'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Art, science, or both? Keeping the care in nursing. 29 Nov 2009
• Motherhood and inequality: a commentary on Hanna Rosin's "The Case Against Breastfeeding". 30 Jul 2009
• Expressing yourself: a feminist analysis of talk around expressing breast milk. 27 Jul 2009
• Surface tension by Caveman. 13 Jul 2009
• Lived religion: implications for nursing ethics. 29 Jun 2009
• Applying Antonio Gramsci's philosophy to postcolonial feminist social and political activism in nursing. 29 Jun 2009
• Critical inquiry and knowledge translation: exploring compatibilities and tensions. 29 Jun 2009
• Embodied work: insider perspectives on the work of HIV/AIDS peer counselors. 29 Jun 2009
• Holding onto womanhood: a qualitative study of heterosexual women with sexual desire loss. 29 Jun 2009
• Cross-national variation in the size of sex differences in values: effects of gender equality. 29 Jun 2009
• Evolution of Canadian nursing curricula: a critical retrospective analysis of power and caring. 6 Jun 2009
• Powerlessness, marginalized identity, and silencing of health concerns: voiced realities of women living with a mental health diagnosis. 30 May 2009
• Feminist and queer phenomenology: a framework for perinatal nursing practice, research, and education for advancing lesbian health. 30 May 2009
• "I'm a mother first": The influence of mothering in the decision-making processes of battered immigrant Latino women. 30 May 2009
• The postconventional body: retheorising women's health. 28 May 2009
• Rich sensitivities: an analysis of conflict among women in feminist memoir. 29 Apr 2009
• The use of innovative pedagogies in nursing education: an international perspective. 29 Apr 2009
• Rethinking recovery from eating disorders: spiritual and political dimensions. 29 Apr 2009
• Feminist theoretical perspectives on ethics in radiology. 30 Mar 2009
• Fostering nurses' political knowledges and practices: education and political activation in relation to lesbian health. 30 Mar 2009

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Technical information about 'Feminism'

Definition: The theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes and organized activity on behalf of women's rights and interests. (Webster New Collegiate Dictionary, 1981)

Descriptor UI: D019513

Alternative terms: Feminism; Feminist Ethics; Ethic, Feminist; Ethics, Feminist; Feminist Ethic;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; history;

Tree Number: K01.316.400.400; K01.752.256.120.400;

Online Note: use WOMEN'S RIGHTS to search FEMINISM 1994-96

History Note: 97; was see WOMEN'S RIGHTS 1994-96

Technical Notes: polit, econ & social equality of women to men