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Exploring the gender-technology relation in nursing

M Sandelowski1

  • 1School of Nursing, Department of Women's and Children's Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 27599, USA.

Nursing Inquiry
|January 23, 1998
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Feminist scholars highlight Western technology's impact on women and nursing. This study bridges nursing and gender-technology studies, offering new analytical tools and empirical insights for both fields.

Area of Science:

  • Nursing Studies
  • Gender Studies
  • History of Technology

Background:

  • Feminist and nursing scholarship acknowledges technology's dual role in women's and nurses' emancipation and subordination.
  • A significant gap exists between nursing scholarship and gender-technology studies, despite shared interests in the technology-gender nexus.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore the under-examined relationship between nursing and gender-technology studies.
  • To demonstrate how gender-technology studies can provide new analytical frameworks for nursing scholarship.
  • To highlight nursing as a valuable empirical domain for advancing gender-technology theory.

Main Methods:

  • Conceptual analysis integrating feminist theory, nursing studies, and gender-technology studies.
  • Literature review of key texts in nursing, feminist theory, and gender-technology studies.

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Main Results:

  • Identifies shared themes and divergent approaches between nursing and gender-technology studies.
  • Proposes specific theoretical and methodological contributions gender-technology studies can offer nursing.
  • Suggests nursing offers rich empirical case studies for gender-technology research.

Conclusions:

  • There is a missed opportunity for synergistic advancement between nursing and gender-technology studies.
  • Integrating these fields can yield novel insights into the historical and contemporary roles of technology in gender and healthcare.
  • Further interdisciplinary research is warranted to explore the nursing-technology relationship through a gender lens.