Mobile subjectivities: Positioning the nonunitary self in critical feminist and postmodern research

Advances in Nursing Science

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 170-180

  Ogle, Kaye Robyn ^a,c   Glass, Nel ^b  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Critical theory; Discourse analysis; Feminist theory; Identity; Methodology; Postmodernism; Research methods; Subjectivity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; EGO; FEMINISM; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; METHODOLOGY; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING RESEARCH; PERSONNEL; PHILOSOPHY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; WRITING;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; AUTHORSHIP; EGO; FEMINISM; HUMANS; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING RESEARCH; PHILOSOPHY, NURSING; POSTMODERNISM; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RESEARCH PERSONNEL; RESEARCHER-SUBJECT RELATIONS; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

EID: 33646903935     PISSN: 01619268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00012272-200604000-00010     Document Type: Review

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