McCool W F, McCool S J
J Nurse Midwifery. 1989 Nov-Dec;34(6):323-34. doi: 10.1016/0091-2182(89)90006-2.
Despite the fact that the profession of nurse-midwifery and feminism are both disciplines concerned with women and issues affecting women's lives, there has been little investigation or acknowledgement of relationships between their two paradigms. The work presented here is an attempt to discover both similarities and differences between nurse-midwifery and feminist thought. Using a historical approach, it is shown that despite the common goal of improving and maintaining women's status in the world, whether in general or more specifically with regard to health, feminist theorists and nurse-midwives, to a large degree, have worked separately from each other, rarely acknowledging in any formal way the importance of the other discipline. Current issues that have an effect on the practice of nurse-midwifery today--lay midwifery, the profession of nursing, and nurse-midwifery research--are presented in relation to contemporary feminist thought.
尽管助产护理专业和女权主义都关注女性以及影响女性生活的问题，但很少有人对它们的两种范式之间的关系进行研究或认可。本文所呈现的工作旨在探寻助产护理与女权主义思想之间的异同。通过历史研究方法表明，尽管在提升和维护女性在世界上的地位这一共同目标上，无论是总体而言还是更具体地在健康方面，女权主义理论家与助产护士在很大程度上各自为政，很少以任何正式方式承认另一学科的重要性。本文结合当代女权主义思想，阐述了当前影响助产护理实践的一些问题——非专业助产、护理专业以及助产护理研究。
