Giving permission to embodied knowing to inform nursing research methodology: the poetics of voice(s).
This paper originated from my experience of trying to find an authentic way to research women's experience of the premenstrum. I describe how personal change informed an evolving methodological approach. This change occurred when I felt tension between two strong voices. Conflict and insecurities originated from the pressure of my academic voice to conform to the dominant culture in what often seemed a disempowering way; a way that denied my body voice by emphasizing theory over experience. The construction of a poetic of voice(s) to illustrate how I eventually found an embodied voice is used to provide space for the reader's own interpretive process. The evolving embodied voice integrates my experience as a woman/nurse/researcher, validating my knowing bodily, practically, experientially and academically that I was able to help the participants to disclose their embodied knowing. This approach has wider implications when considering the value nurse researchers and academics give to embodied wisdom.
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D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008598:Menstruation / Q000523:psychology; D009726:Nurses / Q000523:psychology*; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research / Q000379:methods*; D012108:Research Personnel / Q000523:psychology*; D012649:Self Concept; D014930:Women / Q000523:psychology*