• • • • o r a l • e m i n i s l ers eclives on. ~ il and @alts, £ditors l ~ ~ 9 (.y Q ... -J 0 l/ ;.,; ( 1 Caring and Nursing: Explorations in Feminist Perspectives • Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2018 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/caringnursingexp0000neil Caring and Nursing: ~ Explorations in Feminist Perspectives Ruth M Neil and Robin Watts, Editors ~~·~" P~$5~"" ii}, lo TN~ 0-C:,:' f-lfA<.,_"f Center for Human Caring National League for Nursing • New York Pub. No. 14-2369 UN\\JERS\T'< \JANDERB\LTNTER L\BRAR'< MED\CAL CE Jl\N :i t991 1 ' NASHVILLE, tENNESSE.E. 37232 Copyright© 1991 National League for Nursing 350 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10014 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in print, or by photostatic means, or in any other manner, without the express written permission of the publisher. ISBN 0-88737-501-4 The views expressed in this book reflect those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official views of the National League for Nursing. This book was set in Goudy by Publications Development Company. The editor and designer was Allan Graubard. Clarkwood Corporation was the printer and binder. The cover was designed by Lillian Welsh. Manufactured in the United States of America. About the Authors Elizabeth R. Berrey, PhD, RNCS, is Associate Clinical Professor, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, and Director of Residential Treatment, Bellefaire/Jewish Children's Bureau, University Heights, Ohio. Elise Boulding, PhD, is Professor Emerita, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. Margaret A. Crowley, MS, RN, is Staff Nurse, Gero-Psychiatric Unit, Elliot Hospital, Manchester, New Hampshire, and Doctoral Student, Univer sity of Texas, Austin, Texas. Mary E. Duffy, PhD, RN, is Associate Professor, College of Nursing, Univer sity of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah. Delores A. Gaut, PhD, RN, is Visiting Professor, University of Portland, Port land, Oregon. Barbara Hedin, PhD, RN, is Clinical Staff Nurse, Oncology/Hospice, The Retreat Hospital, Richmond, Virginia. Carol Green-Hernandez, PhD, RNC, FNS, is Associate Professor of Nursing, School of Nursing, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont. Sharon Horner, MSN, RN, is PhD Candidate in the Nursing Program, Medical College of Georgia, Athens, Georgia. Peggy Keen, MS, RN, works ir the lnfectuous Disease Clinic, Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia, and is a PhD Candidate in Nursing, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia. V vi ABOUT THE AUTHORS Nina A. Klebanoff, MSN, RNCS, is in independent practice, Dallas Geriatric Services and is a Home Health Care Clinical Specialist. She is also a PhD Candidate at Texas Women's University, Denton, Texas. Virginia Knowlden, EdD, RN, is Associate Professor and Director of the Mas ter's in Nursing Program, Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing, Division of Nursing, St. Joseph College, West Hartford, Connecticut. Kathleen I. MacPherson, PhD, is Professor and Associate Dean, School of Nursing, University of Southern Maine, Portland, Maine. Karen L. Miller, PhD, RN, is Assistant Director of Nursing/ Administrative Research, The Children's Hospital, and Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado. Ruth M. Neil, MN, RN, is PhD Candidate, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado. Susan Poslusny, MSN, RN, is PhD Candidate, College of Nursing, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois. Carol Roberts, MSN, RN, is Associate Professor of Nursing, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire. Sheila K. Smith, MSN, RN, is Instructor/Lecturer, School of Nursing, Uni versity of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Debbie Ward, PhD, RN. Robin Watts, MSN, RN, is PhD Candidate, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado. Denise Webster, PhD, RNCS, is Associate Professor, School of Nursing, Uni versity of Colorado, Denver, Colorado. Marylouise Welch, PhD, RN, is Assistant Professor, St. Joseph College, West Hartford, Connecticut. Patricia Yaros, PhD, RN. Contents Preface ix Introduction 1 Ruth M. Neil and Robin Watts 1 Caring and Nursing: Explorations in Feminist Perspectives-Introductory Remarks 5 Delores A. Gaut 2 How Women Are Reshaping Community, Locally and Globally • 9 Elise Boulding 3 Looking at Caring and Nursing Through a Feminist Lens 25 Kathleen I. MacPherson 4 A Study of Nursing's Feminist Ideology 43 Karen L. Miller 5 Researching the Lives of Eminent Women in Nursing: Rozella M. Schlotfeldt 57 Elizabeth R. Berrey 6 The Context of Feminism and Nursing in 19th-Century Victorian England 67 Marylouise Welch vii viii CONTENTS 7 The Feminist Movement and the Science and Profession of Nursing: Analogies and Paradoxes 77 Patricia S. Y aros 8 Professional Nurse Caring: A Proposed Conceptual Model for Nursing 85 Carol Green-Hemande.t 9 Gender and Cost in Caring 97 Debbie Ward 10 lntersubjective Copresence in a Caring Model 107 Sharon Horner 11 Mental Health: The Politics of Self-Care 117 Denise Webster 12 Mother-Blaming in the Nursing Care of the Chronically Mentally Ill: The Politics of Caregiving 137 Carol Roberts 13 Codependency: Caring or Suicide for Nurses and Nursing? 151 Nina A. Klebanoff 14 Friendship as a Paradigm for Nursing Science: Using Scientific Subjectivity and Ethical Interaction to Promote Understanding and Social Change 163 Susan M. Poslusny 15 Caring for Ourselves 173 Peggy Keen 16 Feminist Pedagogy: Nurturing the Ethical Ideal 189 Margaret A. Crowley 17 Nurse Caring as Constructed Knowledge 201 Virginia Knowlden 18 A Feminist Analysis of Constructs of Health 209 Sheila K. Smith 19 Researching: Designing Research from a Feminist Perspective 227 Barbara A. Hedin and Mary E. Duffy