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Feminist Ethics Presentation

Feminist Ethics Presentation. NUR 5311 Professional Issues: Law and Ethics June 2013 By: Christian Jimenez, Angela Kensing , Kyle Johnson, Jihane Saed and Madelyn Sparks. Vocabulary.

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Feminist Ethics Presentation

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  1. Feminist Ethics Presentation NUR 5311 Professional Issues: Law and Ethics June 2013 By: Christian Jimenez, Angela Kensing, Kyle Johnson, JihaneSaed and Madelyn Sparks

  2. Vocabulary Feminist – is a person who rejects the ways in which a group and their experiences have been criticized, ignored, and devalued (Volbrecht, 2002). Sexism – believe one sex (usually women) is inferior thus justifies sexual inequality (Newman, 1995).

  3. Vocabulary • Oppression – a pattern of discrimination against a collective group – not simply isolated acts of discrimination again individuals (Volbrecht, 2002).

  4. Defining Characteristics of Feminist Ethics • Concerned with ALL oppressed groups • Examples in the hospital • Male nurses • Disabled patients • Woman hospital administrator • Committed to eliminate discrimination against oppressed groups • Conviction that subordination is morally wrong

  5. Feminist Theory • Feminists Critique Ethics • Women’s Morality • Gender Bias in Traditional Ethics • Nursing in Transition • Patriarchy • Nursing and Feminism • Women’s Health: Bridge Between Nursing and Feminism

  6. Patriarchy • Understanding Patriarchy • The Tree Metaphor

  7. Care Ethics • Beginnings • Ethics in a Different Voice • Nursing Finds a Voice • Effects of Power Imbalance • Distortions of Feminine Caring • Distortions of Masculine Virtues • Epilogue

  8. How health care perpetuates hierarchies of power • “Health care in North America reflects the male-dominated character of these societies” (Volbrecht, 2002,p. 179). • “Nursing’s ability to articulate and institute its own vision of caring has been constrained by the interlocking interests of academic medical empires, financiers, and hospital suppliers and drug companies” (Volbrecht, 2002, p. 180).

  9. Gender-biased medical research and treatment • “Medical treatments for women are based on a male model, regardless of the fact that women may react differently to treatments than men or that some diseases manifest themselves differently in women.” (American Medical Association, 1991)

  10. Relational account of justice • “The goal is to develop policies that give all individuals equal standing, equal access, and equal resources.” (Volbrecht, 2002) • “Healthcare providers have a tremendous power to shape our social reality and it is important that they and all members of society consider whose interests are served and whose are harmed or ignored…” (Volbrecht, 2002)

  11. Goals of feminist ethics • Feminist Ethics is concerned for the rights and welfare of all women and other oppressed groups. It doesn’t excludes men. • It restores the balance of power between women and men and put them on equal terms. • Expose and eliminate oppression for women and other disadvantaged groups. (racial and ethnic minorities (both males and females), the elderly, children, the poor, and the disabled).

  12. How traditional western ethics viewed women • Paid little concern for women’s interest and rights. • Women’s obligation were just to cook, clean, take care of her kids and the elderly • Not morally developed as men. • It overvalues culturally masculine traits like independence, autonomy, separation, mind, reason, culture, transcendence, war, and death. • undervalues culturally feminine traits like interdependence, community, connection, body, emotion.

  13. Feminist theory & health care • The health care system perpetuates the oppression of women, especially women of color. • Majority decision-makers are mostly white male elite • Nurses mostly white females, controlled by budgetary management. • nurse care hours, and medical dominance. • The inherent inequality of the physician/patient relationship • Access to scarce resources by the poor and other medically underserved groups.

  14. Feminist Theory • Feminists do not group all females under the category of “woman,” (or oppressed group) nor do they suggest that all of the oppressed experience the world in the same way. • Feminists are concerned with pursuing a broader relationship between power, gender, and means of generating authoritative knowledge.

  15. Since there is oppression in our world, some perspectives will be more privileged than others • Health care is focused on what Dr.s or Medical researchers should do.

  16. Liberating Nursing from it’s oppression • It is important that we as nurses apply resources to have our voices heard not only for us but for our oppressed patients. • We can use certifications, and higher education to empower not only us but our fellow nurses also • Sexism, racisim, and oppression has shaped nursing’s history.

  17. References: • Volbrecht, R. M. (2002). Nursing Ethics Communities in Dialogue. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, Inc. • American Medical Association. (1991). Gender disparities in clinical decision making. Journal of the American Medical Association, 266(4), 559-562. • Newan, D.M. (1995). Sociology: Exploring the architecture of everyday life. Thousand Oaks, CA:  Pine Forge Press.

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