title: Mobile subjectivities: positioning the nonunitary self in critical feminist and postmodern research.
abstract: Most scholarly work is written from the perspective of the author being a unitary subject occupying a sole, rational, and unified position. This article argues that scholarship may be enhanced by the author adopting multiple subject positions as a methodological framework. Such an adoption is advantageous in working against the romance of the notion of a single truth while also maintaining teleological values congruent with critical and feminist agendas. This article outlines the conceptual development of this methodological framework, the rationale for its development, an explication of the concept of multiple subjectivity, and an exemplar of its application within nursing research.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, Deakin University, Burwood, Victoria, Australia. robyno@deakin.edu.au
authors.forename: Kaye Robyn
authors.initials: KR
authors.lastname: Ogle
authors.forename: Nel
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Glass
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001319:Authorship; D004532:Ego; D019513:Feminism; D006801:Humans; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D015399:Nursing Research / Q000379:methods*; D010687:Philosophy, Nursing; D033302:Postmodernism; D011209:Power, Psychological; D036301:Qualitative Research; D012108:Research Personnel / Q000523:psychology*; D035844:Researcher-Subject Relations; D012930:Social Dominance