AN EMANCIPATORY IMPULSE - A FEMINIST POSTMODERN INTEGRATED TURNING-POINT IN NURSING RESEARCH

This article critiques the current debates regarding feminism, postmod ernism, and feminist/postmodernism within nursing research. The critiq ue classified the debates into three identifiable constructs: dissatis faction, fragmentation, and integration. The authors propose a solutio n from the integration debate as an emancipatory ''workable'' turning point for nursing research. The solution is situated within feminism a nd draws on the epistemological constructs of both modernism and postm odernism. Nursing research is framed within the proposed ontological l inks that characterize the integrated solution.