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Using Critical Feminist Principles to Analyze Programs for Low‐Income Urban Women
Author(s) -
Reutter Linda,
Neufeld Anne,
Harrison Margaret J.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
public health nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.471
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1525-1446
pISSN - 0737-1209
DOI - 10.1111/j.1525-1446.1995.tb00172.x
Subject(s) - disadvantaged , vulnerability (computing) , public health nursing , agency (philosophy) , public health , sociology , nursing , low income , public relations , psychology , economic growth , medicine , political science , socioeconomics , social science , economics , computer science , computer security
Public health nurses are committed to promoting the health of vulnerable populations, including the economically disadvantaged. One of the perspectives that can be used to work with low‐income women is feminist theory. In this paper, we analyze program descriptions from 45 community agencies whose services are accessed by urban low‐income women. The purpose of the analysis is to identify congruence between agency programs and selected feminist principles. As a result of the content analysis, empirical referents and examples were identified for each principle. Public health nursing programs can incorporate feminist principles by responding to the perspectives of the vulnerable and facilitating their efforts to change the conditions that led to their vulnerability. Questions are presented that could guide public health nurses in stimulating reflection and in facilitating dialogue in the process of developing programs for low‐income women.