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INTRODUCTION
Throughout the twentieth century, feminist thinking underwent radical change as the women’s movement gained momentum. ... However, critical understanding of the experience of women’s oppression has remained the raison d’être of feminist thinking. The relevance of feminist scholarship within the interrelationship of gender and health care will be analysed and debated in this article, through the dominant discourse of health promotion. ... Just as feminist thinking cannot be divorced from politics and ideology, neither can health promotion (Caraher,1994). ... The ideology which drives this movement stems from the identification of ‘…the existence of gross inequalities between advantaged and disadvantaged peoples which is politically, socially and economically unacceptable’ (Tones & Tilford, 1994, p. ... Acknowledging liberalism as the antecedent theoretical base of health promotion therefore, could make this health concept problematic for feminist thinkers. ... Feminist thinkers have argued that the feminist construct of gender is detrimental to women’s health. ... The World Health Organisation continually raises the spectre of health beyond the lifestyle of the person, and argues that health inequalities between and within nations and social groups requires eradication for health to be achieved (Tones & Tilford,1994). ... It could be suggested that as nurses are predominantly female, feminist ideology would predominate in health care activities. ... Although feminist thinking remains unconvinced of post structuralist possibilities, it is suggested that a poststructuralist feminist paradigm may be fluid, inconsistent and contradictory enough to challenge the fixed notions of gender and the hegemonic structures of health promotion. ... According to Williams (1989), a feminist view would challenge the dominant discourse of health promotion not only for it’s inadequacy, but also for it’s perversity in accepting that human behaviour can be abstracted from the social context. Feminist thinking recognises that each woman and man has different and therefore unique social and health experiences. ...
In summary then, using gender as the central thread, a feminist lens has been used to consider and analyse the dominant discourse of health promotion. ... Finally, it was suggested that feminist scholarship could offer an understanding of the roles the category of gender and gender relations play, in defining health experiences for all people.
Approximate Word count = 1902
Approximate Pages = 7.6
(250 words per page double spaced)
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