title: Enhancing our understanding of emancipatory nursing: a reflection on the use of critical feminist methodologies.
abstract: The aim of this analysis is to contribute to an understanding of emancipatory nursing in the context of higher education. Engagement with formative studies that used critical feminist methodologies led to my research focus on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) health in my academic research program. Dimensions of emancipatory nursing include reflexivity, transformative learning, interdisciplinarity, praxis, and situated privilege. Several critical feminist methodologies are addressed: feminist ethnography, community-based participatory action research (CBPAR), and comparative life history. Commonalities across methodologies illustrate the potential for emancipatory outcomes/goals.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, Faculty of Health, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: Judith Ann
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: MacDonnell
mesh_terms: D000884:Anthropology, Cultural; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001727:Bisexuality; D002170:Canada; D055812:Community-Based Participatory Research; D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D019513:Feminism; D006291:Health Policy; D054625:Healthcare Disparities; D018452:Homosexuality, Female; D018451:Homosexuality, Male; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D015399:Nursing Research; D012935:Social Justice; D063106:Transgender Persons