Feminist research: its relevance to nursing.

It is the author's intention to explore feminist research and discover its relevance to nursing practice. In order to achieve this, definitions of feminism and feminist research will be made. From these it will be possible to place the feminist research process within a historical context to further understand its focus. Then an analysis of feminist research will be made, examining feminist epistemology, feminist methodology and the methods used by feminist researchers. At this point an examination of who should or can do feminist research will be made, followed by a discussion about the validity of feminist research.