Gender and Empowerment by Nursing Students: Representations, Discourses and Perspectives

Isabela Nogueira (), Gabriela Spagnol, Fernanda Rocha, Maria Helena Lopes, Dalvani Marques and Debora Santos ()
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Isabela Nogueira: Faculty of Nursing, The State University of Campinas, São Paulo 13083-970, Brazil
Gabriela Spagnol: Faculty of Nursing, The State University of Campinas, São Paulo 13083-970, Brazil
Fernanda Rocha: Faculty of Nursing, The State University of Campinas, São Paulo 13083-970, Brazil
Maria Helena Lopes: Faculty of Nursing, The State University of Campinas, São Paulo 13083-970, Brazil
Dalvani Marques: Faculty of Nursing, The State University of Campinas, São Paulo 13083-970, Brazil
Debora Santos: Faculty of Nursing, The State University of Campinas, São Paulo 13083-970, Brazil

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 20, issue 1, 1-11

Abstract: Nursing history is marked by stigmas of gender, race and class. Nowadays, this scenario is evidenced by the social disqualification of the profession and biomedical and male supremacy. Nevertheless, the profession has the potential to change this paradigm with an intersectional approach. The current study aims to understand how the relationships of gender, feminism and empowerment are experienced by nursing students at a Brazilian public university. This is a qualitative study, exploratory-explanatory, with the application of interviews with nursing students in their five years of training. The chosen method of analysis was the Discourse of the Collective Subject based on the central ideas categorized after the interviews: (a) Profession—female and stigmatized due to its historical construction influenced by religiosity and moral; (b) Formation—far from gender relations by the perpetuation of stereotypes; and (c) Perspectives—empowerment of the profession if close to the feminist movement. The students’ discourse alert to the historical reflexes of oppressive ideological mechanisms of women and nursing in their ongoing professional training, claiming transversal learning spaces for the critical expansion of gender awareness and consequent empowerment of nursing in a feminist and intersectional perspective.

Keywords: nursing education research; feminism; gender studies; empowerment; history of nursing; gender equity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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