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KMID : 0377619970620050443
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Korean Jungang Medical Journal
1997 Volume.62 No. 5 p.443 ~ p.449
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Nursing and Feminism
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Abstract
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It goes without saying that a new ´ism´ or an ideology comes into existence in answer to the needs of a society or a historical necessity. And such ´ism´ or ideology can have various effects on the social, political and cultural movements as well as on the way of thinking at a given time.
Throughout the human history, feminism is said to be one of the most revolutionary ´ -ism´, and it may continue to be exist so long as there is any type of sexual discriminations in our society. Nowadays, as an outlook on the world based on the concept of ´gender´, and as an effort to get rid of sexual difference and to respect for woman as a human being, feminism is creeping into the field of nursing. Maybe we cannot disregard its influence on that field because the nursing is occupied mainly by women.
The ideas of caring and nurturing in the nursing can be connected with the idea of womanhood which is deeply rooted in the existing man-oriented ideology. In this respect, the relation of feminism and nursing can be viewed as ´an uneasy alliance´ in that feminism is directed toward an equality of sexes and an avoidance of the idea, womanhood´, fixed on men´s minds. In short, it is a general thinking that feminism can exercise a negative effect on nursing service.
However, there is a new trend in feminism, which acknowledges the difference of sexes and regard the difference as a factor contributing to the development of a society, and support female´s moral by emphasizing an ethics of caring. This feminism can be in accord with nursing because both emphasize the concept of caring. And it should be noted that this harmony of feminism and nursing is helpful to the advancement of female´s position and to the development of nursing professions.
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