Skeat Jemma, Attrill Stacie, Hersh Deborah
School of Medicine, Faculty of Health, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia.
Speech Pathology, School of Allied Health Science and Practice, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia.
Int J Speech Lang Pathol. 2022 Oct;24(5):484-493. doi: 10.1080/17549507.2022.2047785. Epub 2022 May 10.
Feminism is a theoretical position that allows researchers to explore, identify and potentially address issues that negatively impact on women, including on their health and health care. It has been used for many years in health care professions such as nursing. In this paper, we argue that feminist research could underpin innovation in our professional practice as speech-language pathologists. We present research from within and outside of speech pathology that supports this position, and describe how feminism as an epistemology can guide qualitative research and discuss how other health care professions have used this framework to ask questions across broad areas. A feminist lens enables critique of ourselves and our profession to help us to understand how being female-dominated interacts with being portrayed, understood or conceptualised as feminine, and the consequences of this for professional practice. Feminism could also support us to better understand and support our clients, who may experience their disability, health and lives in ways that vary because of gendered experiences, expectations, or limitations.
女权主义是一种理论立场，它使研究人员能够探索、识别并有可能解决对女性产生负面影响的问题，包括对她们健康和医疗保健的影响。它在护理等医疗保健行业中已被使用多年。在本文中，我们认为女权主义研究可为我们作为言语病理学家的专业实践中的创新提供支撑。我们展示了言语病理学领域内外支持这一立场的研究，并描述了作为一种认识论的女权主义如何能够指导定性研究，还讨论了其他医疗保健行业如何使用这一框架在广泛领域提出问题。女权主义视角能够促使我们审视自己和我们的职业，帮助我们理解作为女性主导的职业与被描绘、理解或概念化为女性化之间的相互作用，以及这对专业实践的影响。女权主义还可以帮助我们更好地理解和支持我们的客户，他们可能由于性别化的经历、期望或限制，以不同的方式体验自己的残疾、健康和生活。
